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...great American opera. Blacks were initially offended by its implicit Uncle Tomism; Duke Ellington declared, "The times are here to debunk Gershwin's lampblack Negroisms." Yet black singers have sprung to prominence in its roles, among them Todd Duncan (the first Porgy), Leontyne Price and William Warfield (in a 1952 revival) and Clamma Dale (in the 1976 Houston Grand Opera production). Today an opera written by a white composer that depicted a group of fighting, wenching, gambling, dope-taking blacks is practically unimaginable. Yet Porgy travels...
...Anne Boleyn. As it happened, the much married monarch did not actually divorce Catherine, but engineered an annulment. Nor did he divorce Anne or any of his succeeding four wives.* The ancient Anglican church tradition forced King Edward VIII to abdicate in 1936 so that he might marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, the twice-divorced "woman I love," and led Princess Margaret to reject the divorced Peter Townsend in 1955. Margaret's 1978 divorce from the Earl of Snowden was the first to occur in the immediate royal family...
...even confined for mad ness. But until 1936 none had voluntarily renounced his throne. That dubious dis tinction was left to Edward VIII, who reigned for exactly 325 days and then gave up his crown for "the woman I love," a Baltimore divorcee by the name of Wallis Warfield Simpson...
...students, 992 black). At the largest university in the South the number of black students has tripled since 1972, but it remains relatively small, and only 20 blacks serve on the 1,800-member faculty. "This university simply isn't interested in black affairs," laments John Warfield, 42, director of Texas' Center for African and Afro-American Studies. That seems to apply to blacks themselves. Explains Warfield: "Some black parents are saying to their kids, 'Stay away from that black stuff at school...
...word from her lawyer, Suzanne Blum: "She was the reluctant partner. The King did not want a mistress, and if he had he would not have abdicated. He wanted a wife and the support of one woman for the rest of his life." To prove it, the former Wallis Warfield Simpson has announced her intention to publish a packet of several dozen love letters. The billets-doux, penned by the couple before their marriage, were originally to have been kept secret until after the duchess's death...