![]() In late 1960 after a short stint with the Coast Guard, Turner returned to Georgia to work as a general manager of the Macon, Georgia branch of his father’s advertising business. Although he excelled in his studies and extracurricular activities, Turner was soon expelled from Brown University for entertaining a female companion in his dormitory room which was against college regulations. The rebellious Turner studied the classics and was an avid reader of military history, to the disgust of his father. At Brown University Turner was vice president of the debating team and captain of the sailing team. Initially Turner wanted to go to the Naval Academy but his father persuaded him to go to Brown University where he could study business. During the summers Turner continued to work in his father’s billboard business and by the end of his teens he had become an effective salesman. ![]() In his first years there Turner loathed the school’s discipline code, yet he emerged as a leader amongst his classmates and helped his school to win the Tennessee debating championship. In 1951 he was sent to the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Still an ever demanding father, Turner at age twelve was sent to military schools in Georgia and Tennessee. Turner soon developed a passion for sailboat racing and by age eleven he was competing in Savannah’s junior regatta. With the family business prospering, Ed Turner rewarded his son with the gift of sailing when Ted was nine years old. At his father’s insistence, the young Turner was required to learn every aspect of the family business, from maintenance to accounting. Discipline in the Turner household was very strict. When he was nine years old, Ed Turner moved the family to Savannah, Georgia where he had acquired an outdoor billboard company that was renamed The Turner Advertising Company. Robert Edward “Ted” Turner III was born on Novemin Cincinnati, Ohio and was the oldest child of Ed and Florence Turner. ![]()
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