In my mother's eyes, there was nothing her son couldn't do. She gave me a strong sense of security and was my biggest influence. My father was gassed in World War One and his health never recovered. He had a hardware store that failed during the Depression. My mother supported us, going door to door selling clothes in black neighbourhoods in Memphis. I served in the combat engineers during the war and stayed in Europe afterwards to cover the Nuremberg trials for the American Forces Radio. I moved back to the US and set up my own PR firm. I met Bill Marsteller in 1952 through a friend at the New York Times. People say when we started we didn't have any competition. That's not true. There were several hundred listed in the New York phone book, but only a dozen of us are still around.
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