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BORN: Oct. 18, 1921, Monroe EDUCATION: Wingate College, 1938-39; Wake Forest U, 1939-40 FAMILY: Wife, Dorothy Jane; three children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: Navy, 1942-45 OCCUPATION: Journalist; broadcasting executive POLITICAL CAREER: Raleigh City Council, 1957-61; U.S. Senate, 1972- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 20699, Raleigh...
...RALEIGH: In the Carolinas, two legendary southern Senators are winding up what will probably be their last elections. Republicans Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Jesse Helms of North Carolina each entered the last week of the race slightly ahead of his challenger after running campaigns from the same playbook, TIME's Lisa Towle reports from Raleigh. "As the races progressed, the margins have narrowed to within ten points," Towle reports. "As that has happened, both Thurmond and Helms have gone more on the defensive." When their leads were more comfortable, both men followed a policy of completely ignoring their...
They're showing up at movie theaters en masse--some, like the 15 members of a women's group in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in stretch limos and evening gowns. They're calling in to drive-time radio stations, like Raleigh, North Carolina's WRAL-FM, which solicited listeners' divorce horror stories and revenge fantasies--and found its switchboards lighted up like Times Square. And they're throwing parties, like the one last week for Patti Kenner's 52nd birthday, in which 60 of her female friends gathered for cocktails, then adjourned to a Manhattan theater to hoot and laugh their...
DIED. VERMONT CONNECTICUT ROYSTER, 82, Pulitzer-prizewinning newspaperman who helped shape the Wall Street Journal into America's leading business daily; in Raleigh, North Carolina. Royster, whose family had a tradition of naming children after states, wrote a folksy column for 15 years after retiring...
...auditoriums and gyms, in towns like Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and New Philadelphia, Ohio. After his 36th crusade, in May 1994 in Charleston, West Virginia, his father, having watched him for the first time, hugged him and told him he was proud of him. In September Franklin preached in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the audience was his older sister, Anne Graham Lotz, herself an inspirational speaker and long considered the child who had inherited the greatest share of Billy's gift. Afterward, Lotz told Business North Carolina magazine, she embraced her brother, looked him in the eye, and said, "Franklin...