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Epps and then-Dean of the College Fred L. Glimp '50 also met with House masters at the Faculty Club to inform them of the administration's decision to send in police...
...include that trite, tiresome hoax of the nonexistent "versatile artist" Cranford Glimp? It was demeaning to the genuine achievers you profiled and insulting to your readers. ROBERT BRIDGES Houston...
...critics were never kind to Glimp. Edmund Wilson dismissed him with the scathing comment "I've read his operas, but I refuse to listen to his paintings." George Bernard Shaw admired Glimp for "the authentic ugliness he could carry from one genre to another." Such remarks never bothered him. "I don't create for the critics," Glimp said with his usual brutal whimsy. "I do it for a tiny cult of neurotic admirers who worship me obsessively and bring me offerings of fruit and incense...
...small, bristling man with a florid mustache and snowy, brushed-back eyebrows, Glimp guarded his privacy so laxly that more than enough is known of his stormy and unconventional personal life. He always denied the rumor circulating in his hometown, Pascagoula, Miss., that he shot his mother and the mailman before departing for foreign shores. He married the same woman, nude composer Lola Plitskaza, five times and divorced her twice. Their only child, Enrico, an embalmer of some promise, died tragically on the Lusitania, though not the voyage on which it sank...
...Sadly, Glimp spent his last three decades squandering his creative energies in a legal battle with Alfred A. Knopf; the artist demanded more royalties, while Knopf contended that he was not Glimp's publisher. At 86, death came peacefully to this proud virtuoso as he slept at the wheel of his sports car and drove into a tree. But wherever there are tiny, neurotic cultists with fruit and incense, Cranford Glimp's art will live...