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...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...
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...
...White seemed to get better and went home. Then she had a relapse. In Dr. Thigpen's office she went into a two-minute trance. As her eyes opened, she stared blankly around the room. She fixed them on the doctor. Then, "with an unknown but curiously impressive voice and with immeasurable poise." she asked: "Who are you?" This was Eve White's third personality, soon christened Jane...
...devoured the technical books on Jekyll-and-Hyde phenomena and had consulted colleagues across the country, were still baffled in their effort to find the underlying cause in this case. One day their patient, then in her Jane phase, gave them a strong clue. Dr. Thigpen asked to speak to Eve White. As the two doctors describe the incident: "Jane's neck stiffened abruptly ... A wild light of terror glinted in her eyes. The features . . . had contorted to unrecognizable chaos. Staring now in glassy horror . . . she suddenly cried out in frantic, shattered tones: 'Mother! Oh Mother...
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...