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...says Bailey, "thought the sun rose and set right behind Jesse's left ear." WRAL, that hymn-and-hog-price 250-watter, was now Capitol Broadcasting, an empire embracing the radio outlet, Raleigh's first TV station and a hookup of about 70 rural stations called the Tobacco Radio Network. Fletcher piled three executive titles on Helms and let him do the station's editorials...
Helms' transcripts are packed with hyperbole and meanspiritedness. Yet, perhaps because this was television, he never crossed the line into ugliness or outright racism?as some Tobacco Network listeners seem to remember he did in his early radio talks (of which no transcripts are known to exist). "There is no question about his having been a segregationist," says one old Raleigh newspaper hand. "And he says he hasn't changed his views on segregation." Tom Ellis, 61, a Raleigh lawyer and Helms' most powerful political sponsor, defends his man. "He hates the K.K.K. and those people. Is that what racism...
Moreover, the two companies were very complementary. Phibro reaped profits of $467 million last year by trading in about 150 commodities ranging from tobacco and cocoa to zirconium and Peruvian bird droppings. It now wanted to offer new financial services like raising investment capital for its trading clients. The 71-year-old Salomon Bros., on the other hand, wished to expand its operations beyond traditional bond trading and corporate underwriting. Strategic metals, grains and other commodities, after all, have in recent years been some of the best investments around...
...most deluxe television quiz show. Without undue straining, the voice of a master of ceremonies comes filtering through the imagination, asking the traditional question-"Johnny, tell us what's in the jackpot for this wonderful couple"-and getting, from an agitated announcer who sounds like a tobacco auctioneer just graduated from broadcast school, a far from conventional reply...
...typecast for the role of European professor: hair askew, glasses perched precariously on nose, rumpled suit flecked with bits of tobacco from an omnipresent pipe. At the University of Basel, where he taught for 27 years, students adored him. But amiable Karl Barth was anything but indulgent when he talked of man's relationship with...