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...prophesied that he would not leave the California prison system alive. Last week the grim prediction came true. In one of the bloodiest prison upheavals in recent years, Jackson-robber, author, radical hero, self-styled revolutionary-was killed while attempting to escape from the California State Prison at San Quentin. With him died three prison guards and two fellow inmates...
...measures 181 in. by 141 in.) had disappeared in the Middle Ages and reappeared late in the 19th century in the collection of the first Lord Newlands of Mauldslie Castle, a Scottish industrialist with a taste for painting. It was vaguely attributed to the 15th century Flemish painter Quentin Massys. But nobody paid much attention, least of all the owner's heir Violet, Lady Baird, who kept it in her cottage at Bray mainly because it reminded her of a dear friend. Then, in December 1967, she decided to sell a trinket or two. David Carritt, a renowned...
...instance, the March 20 issue of the Panther paper headlines an open letter from San Quentin Panthers threatening Cleaver with death in any California prison...
...IMPERIAL SELF by Quentin Anderson. 274 pages. Knopf...
...here is Quentin Anderson, professor of English at Columbia, patrolling American literature with a new set of Wanted posters for an even more heinous offense. Citing it as a "creeping apocalypse," Anderson points to the crime of the century: the hundred-year collapse of America's "communal ties." And he knows who did it. For undermining "the authenticating offices of the family and society" and putting a wobble in America's "sense of direction since the mid-nineteenth century," Wanted, Dead or Alive: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Henry James...