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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brock Peters is a striking Crown, with a rich, thunderous baritone voice. And Helen Thigpen makes a particularly memorable moment out of the Strawberry Woman...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: 'Porgy and Bess' Opens at The Astor | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

After reading your article, millions of Americans will laugh those three Dickensian characters (Superintendent Threatte, Board Chairman Thigpen and Member Crum) to scorn, and that sweet little old lady in your portrait will be Baskin in the warm sunshine of public sympathy and approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1958 | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...Superintendent Threatte when she showed him the statement : "This may not be the last you hear of this business." The same day, a school-board member called on Armstrong Baskin, told him that his wife should resign, or be fired. A few days later, Superintendent Threatte, Board Chairman Wallace Thigpen and Member John Crum visited Teacher Baskin herself. Confronted by the awesome threesome of Threatte, Thigpen and Crum, she decided to quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Crime of Minnie Lee | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Dash of Spice. In Santa Monica, Calif.. Willie Thigpen, 19. caught with two friends after relieving a restaurant of $150 and 20 barbecued chickens, readily admitted the theft, explained: "I love that chicken. It tastes better when the cops are looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

What mother had wanted her daughter, then five, to do was to touch the face of her dead grandmother in farewell just before the funeral. Psychiatrists Thigpen and Cleckley are extremely cautious in using this incident as the basis of an explanation of the Eve-Eve-Jane split. But, they say, the little girl had already gained, from previous experiences, an overwhelming fear of death and the dead. This incident, they suggest, may have triggered a flight from reality in which the original personality (most closely resembling Jane) was replaced by the compulsive Eve White, while the hoydenish Eve Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: All About Eve | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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