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...hurricane has just hit," wrote John Marin after a big blow in 1944. "The Seas are Glorious-Magnificent-Tremendous-God be praised that I have yet the vision to see these things." Watercolorist Marin, then almost 74, was spending his summer as usual on the Maine coast. Last week the wry, spry old master proudly showed the world that his vision is still as sharp as ever...
...Dallas, a group calling themselves Young Collections borrowed a gallery in the city's Museum of Fine Arts, opened it to a list of 300 Dallasites who looked like potential customers. On view were 56 paintings by such contemporary artists as Hazel Janicki, John Marin, Ben Shahn. Within an hour of the opening, eight paintings were sold. Texas' ten-gallon prices: from $50 for Woman Setting Table by Jenne Magafan to $500 for Lyonel Feininger's Village in Thuringia...
Election Day brought a landslide in Puerto Rico too. Governor Luis Munoz Marin, running for reelection, swept every town in the island, piled up a total of 428,171 votes. He got 65% of the total vote, compared to 61.8% in 1948. His Popular Party won 70 of 96 seats in the legislature-all it could get under the proportional-representation system in the new Commonwealth constitution...
...idea was first put forward by mustachioed Pascual Marin, fanatical young (35) Falange boss of Segovia: take the blue shirts out of mothballs and stage a rally of the old guard. Labor Minister Jose Antonio Giron, leader of the Falange extremists, was all for it, but there was opposition from 1) Falange moderates, happy in their cushy government jobs; 2) the monarchists, who fear that a reawakening of Falangist activity may mean the end of Pretender Don Juan's chances of getting the throne; 3) the army, one of whose spokesmen said: "We prefer commemorating wars in which...
...Morris F. Richardson, former Republican mayor of Whittier, Calif. (Senator Nixon's home town) enlisted with Stevenson because, he said, "I am convinced it is time for a change." So did John J. Wiley, who directed Nixon's successful senatorial campaign two years ago in Marin County (Calif...