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...STEPHENSON...
After the ship was torpedoed, the U-boat surfaced and its commander ordered 66-year-old Captain Henry Stephenson to come aboard. Said the U-boat commander to the merchantman's crew: "We'll treat him well. He'll be aboard only about eleven days...
...Captain Stephenson coolly ordered someone to fetch him his cigars. "You won't need them," said the German politely. "We have plenty aboard." Snapped salty Captain Stephenson: "I don't want your goddamn German cigars" . . . and with a box of his own under his arm he climbed down into the belly of the submarine. Having looted the cargo ship of food, the U-boat stood off, shelled it, then submerged...
Victor Mature, from a bed in Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, announced the breakup of his eight-month marriage to Martha Stephenson Kemp, complained that she was a "playgirl." Beautiful Mr. Mature was also suffering itchily from primrose poisoning acquired when he was tarred, feathered and dumped in a bush for a film scene...
...Civil War Gray's nephew by marriage, John Stephenson, turned the Plain Dealer into a roaring copperhead sheet. The small remains were expensively pieced together by red-bearded William Wirt Armstrong, who supported Andrew Johnson, fought the 14th and 15th Amendments, opposed woman suffrage on the grounds that it would turn them into "political swagerees, with a love of wine, whiskey and lager beer...