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Speaking of What? An unreconstructed individualist, Still was born in Grandin, N. Dak. in 1904, grew up on a farm, got an M.A. from the State College of Washington, where he taught art for eight years. As a teacher in the California School of Fine Arts (1946-50), he was responsible, along with Mark Rothko, for developing a generation of painters now making their marks in Manhattan, Paris, Rome. Of his own development, he says: "Each man has to find his own way. Painting forces ideas. A man has to struggle to stand, to go beyond all the extraneous material...
Horse Winner. In Minot, N. Dak., when a riderless horse ran into Warren Melby's 1957 Chevrolet cab at a main intersection, the cab suffered $400 damages, the horse...
...bloodied Agitator Blake was suddenly transformed into a "guest in a home." The Army had gone on an orgy of "wholesale arrests." Actual number: eight, with four fined for loitering, and four released at the police station. An "imported judge," i.e., U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies of Fargo, N. Dak. (TIME, Sept. 30), had refused permission for the Faubus side to cross-examine Government witnesses. (Faubus neglected to mention that he had refused to answer a summons to appear in Judge Davies' court, or that his lawyers had walked out on the showdown hearing.) Teen-age girls had "been...
...impasse at Little Rock came to a showdown, the key figure was little (5 ft.1 in., but "please don't call me tiny") U.S. District Judge Ronald Norwood Davies. who came temporarily from Fargo, N. Dak. to preside over the Eastern District of Arkansas. To report on the life and times of Judge Davies, TIME Chicago Correspondent Ed Darby flew to wind-blown North Dakota (his plane was grounded on the way to Grand Forks when a door flew open in mid-air). And one night, done with work for a while. Ronald Davies sat shirtsleeved in his Little...
Huron, S. Dak...