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The Leonard Lopate Show / August 02, 2007 / From Rags to Riches

From Rags to Riches

Thursday, August 02, 2007

In 1933, when Ralph Baruch was nine years old, his family fled Frankfurt, because of growing Nazi restrictions, and eventually settled in New York City. Baruch got his first job at a footwear factory in Brooklyn, but eventually rose to become a group president at CBS before becoming Viacom’s first CEO. Television Tightrope is the story of his rise to fame and fortune in the entertainment industry.

Television Tightrope is available for purchase at amazon.com


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  • [1] SuzanneF from Upper West Side August 02, 2007 - 01:34PM

    My father, Thomas Ford, worked for the Dumont network as a director in the early 50s. I dimly remember going on the set of Captain Video and meeting the cast -- I was very young. He then moved into advertising and made television commercials. I'll have to get him this book -- I'm sure he'll enjoy it.

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