Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chilling case of casual violence, but peaceful Somerset County had an extra reason for dismay. Although the deadly encounter was between two out-of-state transients, Somerset County's 9,000 taxpayers would have to bear the cost of the trial...
...Stephanie Weiner took off from her home in Miami early last September and headed for Montreal in her mother's panel truck, she said she was going to take along a friend and drop him off in New Jersey. A week later, in the farm lands of Somerset County, Md., Ina's badly beaten and decomposed body was found stuffed into her sleeping bag. Police charged that her New Jersey-bound friend, Henry King, 23, of Chesapeake, Va., had killed her, then stolen the truck and her belongings. King was eventually caught in Indiana...
...faithful, who flocked to his big house on the Jamaicaway to pay their last respects. No longer does the Irish mayor receive his people, solve their problems, dole out money from his own pocket for funerals, make the round of wakes, bully the bankers and stomp into the Somerset Club to confront the State Street money. What passes for Irish politicians nowadays are an Ivy League educated mayor who lives on Beacon Hill and hangs out at the Ritz and an ugly caricature of a Congresswoman whose reputation is based on a record of bigotry that would have shocked...
THAT WHIRRING NOISE you hear is Kurt Weill spinning in his grave. When he and Bertolt Brecht wrote Threepenny Opera, Happy End, and Mahagonny, they never dreamed that their operas would be performed in the ballroom of the Somerset Hotel, in front of a group of Scotch-sipping, fur-clad, overstuffed suburbanites. The producers of September Song have done to Weill exactly what Brecht complained had been done to Billy's Bawd House in Balbao: "They've made it bourgeois...
...tawdry story, almost as if Confidential had rewritten Somerset Maugham's Rain for the U.S.O. In this case, the clergyman was a Baptist chaplain in the U.S. Navy, his accusers wives of fellow officers. On trial at the Jacksonville, Fla., Naval Air Station for conduct unbecoming an officer is Commander Andrew Jensen, 43, a 16-year Navy veteran, married and the graying father of two. The trial marks two embarrassing firsts for the Navy: no officer had ever stood trial solely on adultery charges, and no chaplain had ever been court-martialed...