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...father Ed Turner came off a hardscrabble farm in Sumner, Miss., and entered the billboard business. In pursuit of ambition he moved the family from Cincinnati to Savannah when Ted was nine. Almost immediately Ted was shipped off to Georgia Military Academy, just outside Atlanta. He arrived six weeks after the school year started, the last entrant to his class, with an alien accent; he knew trouble was ahead, and came out fighting. Thus began a pugilistic attitude that lasted into adulthood. Turner was all the more motivated to establish his virility with his fists because he found no glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaking Up the Networks | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...prison shop were a three-wheel gocart, a motorcycle engine, a rear rotor blade-in short, more or less everything needed to build a helicopter except the main overhead blade. The criminal masterminds were a welder, a plumber and an electrician serving long sentences in maximum security. Warden George Sumner contends that the plot would never have flown anyway: "If they had tried to take off, they were right in front of Tower One here, and they would've been shot down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Briefs: May 17, 1982 | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...light of past disputes like 7 Sumner Rd though, the settlement is a big victory for the tenants, who didn't move from the building despite the uncertain climate and who stayed united in their dealings with the University...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Mixed Blessing | 5/14/1982 | See Source »

...efforts of the newly formed Harvard Tenants Union (HTU) may have been equally as important in forcing the compromise. The HTU wasn't around when the Sumner Rd battle was at its height: its leadership kept public pressure on the University throughout the Mt. Auburn St. dispute, however...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Mixed Blessing | 5/14/1982 | See Source »

...mixed blessing, however, is far more than tenants have won from the University in the past. If nothing else, the men and women who used to live at 7 Sumner Rd, would be amazed...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Mixed Blessing | 5/14/1982 | See Source »

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