You WISH you were the Wiener!!!

HA!!!

My week this week.....
you all were either too busy doing my Birthday shopping
(I need underwear)
....or bored.....
but no one got this week's answer....
Mr. Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III

Interesting life......even without Jane Fonda.

--His Birthday is today!! Happy 72!!
(he doesn't need underwear is my guess)

-- He managed the Atlanta Braves for 1 game in 1977....that's when MLB and Bowie Kuhn put in a mandate that any owner could not also manage.
(Braves lost to the Phillies)

--His dad committed suicide while Ted was in his early 20's...
Dad feared financial collapse and couldn't deal with the pressures. Ted was able to turn around the sagging Billboard Company and turn it into today's empire.

--Turner attended Brown University....but was expelled for bringing a female into the male dorms. He was given an honorary degree from Brown years later.

--Ted is THE LARGEST individual U.S. land owner....his 15+ ranches add up to almost 2,000,000 acres! His largest ranch in NM is over 900 square miles.

--Has been sailing since age 11....was the captain of the Brown Sailing Team in College....and won the America's Cup Race in 1977, on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

--TBS purchased Hanna Barbera (which owned The Flintstones)....in 1991.

--born in Cincinnati, OH.

Marty
Somerset Center, MI