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...FRANK G. BARNETT East Lansing, Mich...
...Luminous Thing. Scull is somewhat shocked by his notoriety as a Pop art collector. Of the 200-odd works he has bought, mostly by abstract expressionists, only about 40 are by Pop artists. His living room is an oasis of his earlier purchases, safe and strangely solacing works by Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. But he ardently defends...
After the jury went out, Beckwith's wait was relieved by visits from former Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett and onetime Army Major General Edwin A. Walker. Beckwith seemed deeply moved by their presence. At week's end, Beckwith's lawyers prepared to file a motion to get him out of jail on bond while he awaits a new trial, which will probably come in the late spring...
Tortured by self-doubt and the derision of the public press, Pollock gave up the brush for the bottle. His forays from his remote Long Island studio into New York frequently ended in barroom squabbles at the abstract expressionists' hangout, the old Cedar Bar. Painter Barnett Newman tried to keep him out of it. "The.y're laying for you," warned Newman. "You go in there a hero, and you come out a bum." One of Pollock's last major works was 1955's Search, an encyclopedia of his artistry in joyous Christmas colors. Its true thrill...
...racial demonstrations filled the streets of Jackson and the headlines of the nation. The death of a prominent civil rights leader and the threat of Negro violence could not be ignored; city, country, and state police joined the FBI in the hunt for the killer. Gov. Ross Barnett and Jackson's Mayor Allen C. Thompson, both members of the Citizens Council, offered rewards for the apprehension of the assassin. Fingerprints on the murder weapon led the federal detectives to Greenwood, Miss., where the first Citizens Council in Mississippi was founded, and to Beckworth. He was charged with murder, and District...