author, Duncan Hines, was etched on the biting edge of the American
appetite.”
And even as recently as 2005, renowned gossip columnist Liz Smith, in
her book Dishing (“on great dish and dishes”) opened her first chapter
“Food, Glorious Food!” with a quote from Duncan Hines. It read “Nearly
everyone wants at least one outstanding meal a day,” and Mr. Hines dealt
in good eating every day of his life.
In the meantime, with the guidebooks gone, my father , while still
consulting with P&G, entered his fourth career, founding Park
Broadcasting, Inc. in 1961 with the purchase of two radio stations in
Greenville, NC. The same year I reentered Cornell, this time seeking a
master’s degree from the Johnson Graduate School of Management.
CHAPTER 9: GRADUATING INTO LIFE
I was fortunate enough to be accepted in midterm as a graduate student
at Cornell in 1961, immediately after receiving an undergraduate degree in
journalism from The University of North Carolina. With my BA in
Journalism from Carolina, combined with an MBA from Cornell, I felt
assured my education would be perfect for a career with an advertising
agency.
I was never around for graduation ceremonies at either college, because
of the timing of my degrees. As soon as I learned a Carolina diploma was
forthcoming, I returned to an Ithaca winter. The business school, then
known as the Graduate School of Business and Public Administration, was
