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Carter's devotion to the Star-Telegram and its city was matched only by his scorn for Dallas, 30 miles away. Nothing pleased him more than his slogan for Fort Worth ("Where the West Begins"), especially when he could add that Dallas was really for effete Easterners. Carter always refused to buy anything in Dallas, including food; on his rare visits to Dallas he proudly carried a box lunch. To make Fort Worth an aviation center, he became the largest single stockholder in American Airlines, moved its headquarters from Dallas to Fort Worth. The name...
...finance new ventures. Two budding newspaper publishers, D. C. McCaleb and A. G. Dawson, who were starting the Fort Worth Star in the city, hired Carter as their ad manager. He soon bought out the partners and borrowed enough money to buy out the Star's opposition, the Telegram...
...Star-Telegram grew, so did Carter's enthusiasm for Fort Worth. He once talked so eloquently about the city's future to Publisher William Randolph Hearst that Hearst bought the only morning daily in the city. Hearst was sorry; in less than four years Carter's competition was so tough that he sold out to Carter, leaving only the small (cir. 52,393) evening Scripps-Howard Press to compete with the Star-Telegram (combined morning-evening circ. 246,354). For $300 Carter bought a radio station (which later became the paper's profitable WBAP-TV), then...
Until three years ago, Carter kept a tight rein on the Star-Telegram. Then he turned over the paper's operation to his able, Texas-loving son Amon Jr., onetime artillery officer, who was captured in North Africa, spent 27 months in a German P.W. camp during World War II. Early this year, slowed down by three heart attacks, Publisher Carter made his last public speech at the opening of the 1955 Stock Show. Last week, at his home in the city that is a monument to his energy, showmanship and imagination, "Mr. Fort Worth," 75, died of uremia...
...months-by cable, special emissary and high-level negotiation-CBS tried for the TV coup of the year. Fortnight ago, everything seemed to be set. Arriving in the U.S., Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov agreed by telegram to face a battery of U.S. reporters on CBS's Face the Nation. Details, the telegram said, could be ironed out at San Francisco, where the telecast would originate following the tenth commemorative meeting of the United Nations...