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...years before he died in 1953 at the age of 83, John Marin was voted "the greatest living American painter" by a poll of critics and museum men. What the cranky, salt-bitten old Yankee thought of this honor is uncertain. Marin loathed the idea that art should become a monument, freezing its maker in the pose of a culture hero. "Art is not great," he once scribbled in that looping hand with which he covered innumerable scraps of paper with misspelled, queerly punctuated aphorisms. "Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly...
Davis is being held without bail in California for allegedly buying the guns used in the killing of Judge Harold J. Haley and three other persons last August 7. The deaths occurred in a gun battle following the disruption of a trial in the Marin County courthouse...
...notion that some time in the future both countries might arrange to exchange observers at such trials, thus to monitor the levels of political repression. Almost no one, however, believes that the Soviet scientists will be permitted to accept. One man who worries that they might be is the Marin County prosecutor-but not because he has anything to hide. He simply feels that the 104-seat courtroom where Miss Davis will be tried would overflow with the Russians, their interpreters, diplomatic escorts and security guards...
...Jackson was so intrigued by his first sight of a white skin that he walked up and touched it. His curiosity earned him a swift blow on the head with a baseball bat. Since that time, Jackson, whose brother Jonathan was cut down while leading a raid on the Marin County courthouse last August, has battled white society. For eleven years, Jackson, 29, has served time in California prisons for the $70 robbery of a gas station - 7½ years of that time in solitary confinement. Though eligible for parole after his first six months, he has been repeatedly turned...
...Base, 76 miles away in New Jersey. There, surrounded by nine sheriff's deputies and two prison matrons, she was whisked aboard a plane for the flight to Hamilton Air Force Base in California. Finally, after another heavily guarded auto procession, Angela Davis was locked up in the Marin County jail, a few hundred feet from the scene of the grisly courthouse shootout last August that she is accused of having helped plan...