TRIALS: Ten Years Later

As Jane Froman settled in the witness stand last week, her withered right leg was plainly visible to the jury and the tense, packed Manhattan courtroom. Songstress Froman was asking $2,500,000 for damages suffered in the tragic Pan American Yankee Clipper crash in Lisbon's Tagus River ten years ago, in which 24 were killed. She wept softly as she recalled the crash. "I saw flashes of lightning as the plane approached the airport . . . I remember the plane banking to the left . . . I came to in the water. I was under the water. I pushed...