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Billings is a vigilante, in his own way. He’s never spent much time doing one thing in particular, preferring to show up, strike and fade away. He never stayed at one job for very long, instead filling in where he was needed.
Billings has worked for both the National Rifle Association (NRA) and a counterculture magazine called the Mother Earth News. His many exploits in journalism and consulting have won him mention in no less than six editions of Who’s Who (including Who’s Who in America...
After two years of ranch work and course work at Deep Springs, he transferred to Harvard. Here he discovered that he had already completed all the requirements for his government concentration. Freed from the pressure to specialize in one area of study, Billings explored the full diversity of classes in...
But after earning a degree from Harvard Business School, Billings decided that going into the theater business “wasn’t the smartest thing to do” and turned his sights on newspapers instead.
But Billings did eventually get a call from Copley Newspapers in San Diego and was offered a spot on the corporate staff. Thirteen years later, in 1970, he left his job with Copley (which, looking back, he remembers as “nirvana”) and decided to become a...