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...George-two years younger and now an Army captain-had the kind of childhood any kid might expect from oldfashioned. God-fearing and strict parents. If you disobeyed, "you got yourself whipped-with love, but you were torn up just the same." The color bar was as strong in Laurel as anywhere in the South, but the children were not aware of it at the time: "We were taught to judge peo ple as individuals, not on the pigment of their skin," says George. Today some Southerners use the Price success story to bolster their arguments. Says Laurel...
...returned to Laurel with her, is now chairman of the board of the First National Bank. After school Leontyne would sometimes wander over to the large green house to visit "Big Auntie" Everlina Greet, the Chisholms' maid (before that, she had been the Wisners', served the two families for 45 years before she retired four years ago). Leontyne would play with Jean and Peggy, the two older of the three Chisholm daughters. They were, she recalls, her "other family," and she was their "chocolate sister...
...First Leontyne. At Laurel's Oak Park High School, Leontyne seemed to specialize in everything. She was a high school cheerleader ("There would be Leontyne at half time," says Kate Price, "walking around the field on her hands") and a soloist on virtually every one of the Negro community's civic and church programs. She also appeared at funerals, until one group of mourners was so overcome by her expressive performance that she was asked to stop singing. She did but vowed angrily: "That's the last funeral I'll ever...
...high on the hog, with my first piece of luggage and two coats," Leontyne left Laurel for the North. Impressed by her voice, an Army chaplain from nearby Camp Shelby had helped her win a scholarship to Wilberforce University, a mostly Negro school in Ohio. On her entrance application she wrote, under Plans for the Future: "I'm worried about the future because I want so much to be a success...
...taken a vacation in years, rarely sees her twelve-room house in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. With a six-figure income, the only luxury she finds time for is buying dresses (in Rome) and hats and suits (in Vienna). She has also completely refurnished the Price home in Laurel, built a room to accommodate Big Auntie. She now has a considerable entourage, including a personal manager, a concert manager, an accompanist, a pressagent, a male secretary and a housekeeper, all of whom, as Teacher Kimball once put it, "would like to put a silver shield around her to protect...