Word: russ
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, I cannot understand why someone would willingly ignore God's great gift of medical knowledge in favor of enduring a health condition that could easily be corrected. Russ Briggs' watching his two babies die in childbirth and then seeking medical help for his own back injury make me wonder about that kind of "faith." ROBERT H. RIES Florence...
...surrounded by the resting places of other infants, many of whom never received first names: here is a placard denoting Baby Girl White, and another for Baby Boy Morris. Only a few life spans are commemorated, and many of these are shockingly short: weeks, days and even hours. Russ Briggs comes here often; he cannot stay away. "Those two, right there, those are my boys," he says, his voice cracking. "I could have saved them, but I let them...
Perhaps, but Russ Briggs feels no contempt. Briggs watched first one and then another son die during childbirth unattended by doctors or trained nurses; he left the Followers in 1981, after deciding to seek medical help for a back injury. Briggs supports the Oregon exemption-repeal drive, but despite being shunned by his former community, he bears no discernible rancor. "They're still believing in a faith, so there's no blame for them," he says. "Their children died, and they allowed it to happen because of a belief that they still have. That takes away the blame...
...Town in 1949; "West Side Story" he decided to do himself. Or nearly so; Robbins was teamed with Robert Wise as codirectors. They hated each other (when the duo received the Best Director Oscar jointly that year, neither acknowledged the other in his speech), but the child was beautiful. Russ Tamblyn's a dervish, Natalie Wood's a dream, and that finger-snapping? Gang war -- or Shakespeare, for that matter -- doesn't get any prettier...
...through the night traffic on Broadway to seize several copies of the New York Times hot off the delivery wagon. We would gather as many papers as possible and retire to a quick-lunch counter to read them. Harry always gave me the Herald Tribune, with the remark, "Here, Russ, you read the Tribune. It's always a day late anyway." Whenever anything was discovered, either Harry or Brit would lunge for the telephone booth and dictate corrections to the proof room...