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...have always been called Rip by most of my male friends, Tony by most of my female friends, and Dodo (an extinct bird) by my grandchildren. Both my son Rip's and my forename is really Elmore. Rip is a nickname a Torn would receive, as surely as Dusty would be attached to the surname of Rhodes...
...Henry Willson notwithstanding, I think Rip Torn is a real and substantive name for an actor, and always will...
ELMORE R. TORN Taylor, Texas
Seventy-one years ago, a poet was dying of gangrene in a Marseille hospital: one of his legs was amputated, the other might have to go. "Have yourself chopped up, torn to bits, shredded," he wrote to his sister, "but don't let them amputate you ... To have to perform acrobatic stunts all day long for the mere semblance of existing!" Soon after, Arthur Rimbaud was dead; he had just turned...
Wilhelm tired of Mary. He demoted her husband to a corps commander, and when Mary reproached him, petulantly ordered all the Y.M.C.A. signs torn down in Berlin. Banished from politics at 52, Mary devoted her life to religion. She died at 76, five weeks before the Kaiser led the nation...