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Like most Americans, Justice Potter Stewart heartily endorsed the Supreme Court's famous decision in Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which ordered all American courts to provide lawyers for indigent defendants-at least in the trial of felony cases. What now bothers Stewart is the court's refusal to answer an insistent question: Does Gideon's right to counsel also cover misdemeanors...
...program, which depends on grants from private foundations, has so far received $17,500 from the Sealantic Foundation and the Spaulding-Potter Charity Trust. Four thousand dollars more is needed to provide full scholarships for the 20 Negro undergraduates who will participate...
...statement is made in a parable about a potter who is happy making pots. All day long the wheel turns and the plant on the window sill sings like a bird. Then one day the door to the potters shop bursts open and a vast impersonal Hand walks in. It smashes the potter's pots and arrogantly commands him to reshape them in the image of the Hand. When the potter refuses, it plies him with presents. When he continues to refuse, it threatens him with death. Finally it ties strings to his head and hands and turns...
...long the wheel turns but the plant no longer sings like a bird. One day the pot that holds the plant falls off a shelf and kills the potter. Free at last? Hardly. His funeral is arranged by the helping Hand...
Barrister-Papa Potter, who looked like a Jehovah chiseled in granite, had inherited so much money that he never bothered to practice law, spent his days at his club. Mama Potter, who looked like Queen Victoria, discouraged overnight visitors by keeping her spare rooms so dusty that they were uninhabitable. Beatrix' chief diversion lay in frequent trips to picture galleries, of which she candidly detailed her impressions: Sir Joshua Reynolds was "niminy-piminy," while "Raphael had never looked at a horse." She was occasionally malicious: "Miss Ellen Terry's complexion is made of such an expensive enamel that...