Word: thomsen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York reversed Provoo's conviction on technical grounds: he should have been tried in Maryland, where first picked up, and he should not have been cross-examined on the "prejudicial" issue of homosexuality. He was indicted again in Baltimore, but last March U.S. District Judge Roszel C. Thomsen threw out the case, ruling: "Provoo . . . has been denied the right of speedy trial within the meaning of the Sixth Amendment." Last week the Supreme Court upheld the dismissal...
...Baltimore, District Judge Roszel C. Thomsen ruled that when the Washington Times Herald quoted from defeated congressional candidate Mark Hammett's political pamphlet the passage reading, "My general erudition, social punctilio and physical pulchritude are of the highest order," the paper did not libel Hammett in commenting: "Anybody want to go with him steady...
...Letter Carrier Robert M. Dawson Jr. and his four small children were ordered off the municipal beach at Baltimore's Fort Smallwood Park and sent home. Reason: they are Negroes. The Dawsons took the case to court, and last December Baltimore's Federal District Judge Roszel C. Thomsen ruled that the family had no right to be at the Fort Smallwood beach, because Baltimore maintains separate but equal swimming facilities for Negroes. Judge Thomsen held that the U.S. Supreme Court, in its historic decision banning segregation in public schools (TIME, May 24), specifically "refrained from deciding . . . in fields...
...Army, favored to win the game, needed a victory to wind up ahead of Princeton on a complicated point scale; Navy could win a second-place tie with Army by an upset. Sitting plunk in the center of the Navy cheering section was Princeton's Lacrosse Coach Ferris Thomsen. He and the Middies had plenty to cheer about...
...early in the second half before Army could get moving. Final score: 10-7. Navy's jubilant players, rushing to the Severn River seawall, gave happy Coach William H. ("Dinty") Moore a hearty heave ho into the river-then exuberantly jumped in after him. Princeton's Coach Thomsen hurried to a telephone to tell his men that they were the national champions...