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...Turner, who became a millionaire in the billboard business after his family lost its cotton farm in the Depression, was determined to give his son both ambition and the self-doubt that keeps ambitious people going. "He wanted Ted to be insecure because he felt insecurity breeds greatness," Judy Nye Hallisey, Turner's first wife told biographer Roger Vaughan. During World War II, Ed Turner served in the Navy; he brought along his wife and daughter but left behind Ted, age 6, at a boarding school in Cincinnati. Ted's father sent the boy to a military academy from...
...Brown in his senior year for entertaining a woman in his room, he bummed around Florida for a few months before returning to Georgia and his father's business. Turner's first test as a businessman came when he discovered that his father, despondent because of his billboard firm's mounting debts, had sold its big, newly acquired Atlanta division just before killing himself. The young Turner did everything he could to nullify the contract and win back the business, luring away employees from the Atlanta unit to the Macon, Ga., division he retained, shifting lucrative contracts between companies, threatening...
Turner proved far more adept even than his father at the billboard business. So as the money rolled in, he turned to sailing and broadcasting in pursuit of his father's elusive benediction. By 1982, when he was 43, he had successfully defended the America's Cup, launched the first station distributed nationally to cable systems via satellite and the first 24-hour news network, and made the first edition of the Forbes 400 list -- enough success, he says, to have begun to lay "the ghost" of that paternal judgment "to rest." But he was still an emotional cripple. Turner...
...AMERICAN BILLBOARD 100 YEARS by James Fraser (Abrams...
...billboard seems just the right size for the American landscape, while its boldness seems the perfect mirror for the American sensibility. From the sentimental images that sold soap in the 1920s through the stark, wordless Nike billboards of today, this book traces the evolution of a quintessential form of American advertising...