One Sunday morning about 1940 when the Carter family was getting ready for church, Jimmy, then a high school senior, tried to smear down three-year-old Billy's unruly blond hair with brilliantine. When Billy squirmed, Jimmy threw him faceup across his lap and shook the bottle above his mouth. The top fell off and the hair oil poured over Billy's face.
It was a humiliating defeat for little Billy, one of many to come. As Billy once bitterly said: "I help make us an average family ... Jimmy is 100% and I'm 0%. So it comes out to 50% because of me." There...
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