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A lifetime on edge of fame // A poet-dancer-artist remembers days when the arts were his all

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19860302
Author:Delia O'Hara

"Somebody said once if I'd stuck with just one thing, I might have amounted to something."

Mark Turbyfill gives the line straight, in a voice that still has a lot of Oklahoma in it, even after 75 years of living in Chicago. But then he hunches up his shoulders and giggles. It's a self-conscious gesture; maybe he thinks the visitor to his Rogers Park apartment will agree with the anonymous "somebody."

After all, the world's not beating a path these days to Turbyfill's door, up three steep flights in a nondescript courtyard building, where he lives alone with his fabulous memories. But in a ...

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