Word: shipboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...married (18 months ago to the daughter of a leather manufacturer), a prospective father. Moreover, handsome Willem Van Rie had something that most sailors can only dream about as they toss in their lonely bunks on the heaving seas: a pretty girl with whom he was involved in a shipboard romance...
...girl, Lynn Kauffman, 23, was a divorcee; she was vivacious, smart, well educated. The affair blossomed in the 44-day voyage from Singapore to Boston. On the 45th day, when Utrecht left Boston for New York, the shipboard romance was dead-and so was Lynn Kauffman, whose half-nude body, brutally beaten, was found awash on Spectacle Island in Boston Bay. Last week police arrested Radio Officer Van Rie on a charge of murder...
...Harm's Way." Born John Paul, the man who won fame as John Paul Jones went to sea at 13, by 21 was master of a merchant ship in the West Indies trade. But at the port of Scarborough, Tobago, in 1773, he got into a savage shipboard brawl with mutinous seamen, ran one through the body with his sword, and fled for his life. He assumed the name of John Jones, sailed to America, and at the outbreak of the Revolution, under the name John Paul Jones, offered his services to the Continental Navy...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Billy Budd, Herman Melville's moving tale of a shipboard murder trial, with Jason Robards Jr., James Donald and Roddy McDowall...
...Decks Ran Red (M-G-M), another high-tension, low-budget movie made by Andrew and Virginia Stone (Julie, Cry Terror!), is a shipboard scare-show that will probably make a good many customers queasy-some because they cannot stand the sight of so much blood, others because they like their terror firmer. The story begins aboard a greasy old freighter when one of the hands (Broderick Crawford) decides that the world has too many people and he has too little money. He knows exactly how to solve both problems at once: murder everybody on board, then claim the ship...