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...placing Fromme on your cover [Sept. 15], you are supporting the second purpose of the Manson family as reported by Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi: "to draw attention to themselves and to shock the world...
Introducing the affidavit, Patty's defense was telling the prosecution the general lines of its strategy in the federal and state cases. Says Attorney Vincent Hallinan, the leader of the defense team: "We did something unusual, honest and straightforward. We put the whole defense before the prosecution stated what they were trying to prove." In an interview, Judge Carter said: "The average public doesn't believe one thing she says in that affidavit. But I, for one, intend to look at it and take it on an evidentiary basis...
...INSANITY. Even if Patty is found competent to stand trial, her lawyers could argue that her captors had driven her insane. Indeed, Vincent Hallinan said the defense would claim that she had been made "completely, absolutely, utterly insane by those who kidnaped her." Insanity, however, is difficult to prove, and Patty's behavior while on the run-and her recorded statements in jail-poses problems for the defense. What is more, Thomas Dean Matthews, 19, whom Patty and her companions are charged with kidnaping and holding for nearly twelve hours while on a robbery spree...
Following graduation and a six-month sojourn in Europe, Reed settled down in Greenwich Village where he got a job on Max Eastman's New Masses. Here Reed came into contact with artists and intellectuals--Van Wyck Brooks, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Max Weber, and Eugene O'Neill among them--who pushed the tenor of political consciousness in the Village toward the Left...
...patterns and twining lines of a Jakachū in reproduction is at first to be reminded of Victorian illustration, as though he were an Eastern Aubrey Beardsley or Arthur Rackham. Not so. In fact, he was nearer to being a cross, improbable as it may sound, between Audubon and Vincent Van Gogh. When Jakachū painted the arrogant feathers of a cock's ruff, each sharp quill imbued with fiery distinctness, he could give them the vitality of a Van Gogh sunflower. His range of notation, the "handwriting" that constitutes larger shapes, was astounding-as a scroll of shells...