Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hustling to cash in on the publicity. The company's rockers, made of oak with a specially curved back to increase comfort, had usually been made in a natural light finish, sold for $24.95. In order to make them look more like Kennedy's chair, which he has had stained. P. & P. has added a chair with a dark, or antique, finish, sells it for $34.95. President William C. Page, 71, is stepping up production of P. & P.'s Kennedy-type rockers (it also makes chairs and stools) from 200 to 1,500 a month, raising...
...those 900 children whom Mrs. Katie Price delivered. No doubt many of them, like Miss Price and myself, attended Oak Park High School. And no doubt many students elsewhere who attended Southern segregated schools find themselves in situations similar to mine. In a Northern college, for the first time, I am wondering what went amiss, educationwise, in the past...
Downstairsville, there is a two-story, chandeliered, oak-paneled living room with teakwood floors and a trap door through which you can drop twelve feet into a kidney-shaped indoor pool. "That," I'll tell my visitors, "is where we throw the old, discarded girls." At the end of the pool is a waterfall, and you can swim through it twosies into a dark, warm grotto which has wide ledges at the sides, softened with plastic-cover-ed cushions...
Past the veranda of the one-story. frame house runs South Fifth Avenue. It is a narrow, rutted road of yellow clay shaded by oak trees. On the other side of town, beyond Magnolia Street and the county courthouse with its marbled Confederate soldier, runs the avenue known as North Fifth. There stand the great mansions with their porticoes and colonnades and carriage houses. Big Auntie has been there-as downstairs maid and cook on the cook's night out-in the big green house set back from the street by a lawn. Although their names might suggest otherwise...
...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...