Frank Nicholas Stanton was an American broadcasting executive who served as the president of CBS between 1946 and 1971 and then as vice chairman until 1973. He also served as the chairman of the Rand Corporation from 1961 until 1967.

Martin Tahse is possibly most well known for his productions of Broadway shows that went on tour. With this, he became known for producing ABC’s after school specials.

Edward Kramer Thompson was an American writer and editor. He was the editor of LIFE from its early days as a weekly and was the founding editor of Smithsonian Magazine.

In 1929 he started working for the Milwaukee Journal where he would remain until 1937. He also worked as a stringer for TIME which brought him to the attention of Henry Luce who was thinking about introducing a national picture magazine, which would become LIFE. Luce hired Thompson in 1937 as assistant picture editor for this new venture. From 1949-1961 he was the managing editor. During this time he came to know Lee Eitington, who would become his second wife in 1963. Thompson was known for the free rein he gave his editors, particularly a “trio of formidable and colorful women: Sally Kirkland, fashion editor; Mary Letherbee, movie editor; and Mary Hamman, modern living editor.” He retired from LIFE as editor in chief, in 1970.

Next he “invented”, to use his word, Smithsonian magazine. “To those all-out converts to computerized journalism who declaim that ‘print is dead,’ I say, ‘Not so fast.'” are his opening words of his book: A Love Affair with Life & Smithsonian published by the University of Missouri Press in October 1995. His other ‘invention’ was the magazine Impact which he created for the Army Air Forces during his time out during World War II; LIFE, he would say, was Henry Luce’s invention.

Phil Walden was co-founder of the Macon, Georgia-based Capricorn Records with his younger brother Alan Walden and a friend, former Atlantic Records executive, Frank Fenter. Walden served as Otis Redding’s manager from 1959 until Redding’s death in 1967. Walden hosted one of Redding’s first shows at the Phi Delta Theta lodge in the sixties. He later helped launch the career of the Allman Brothers Band.

After managing several R&B acts in the 1960s, including Al Green, Sam & Dave, Percy Sledge, and Redding, Walden helped create the Southern rock genre with Capricorn Records, where the roster featured the Allmans, the Marshall Tucker Band, Elvin Bishop, Wet Willie, Bonnie Bramlett, White Witch, Hydra, Grinderswitch, and the Dixie Dregs. Personal and financial difficulties led to the demise of Capricorn in 1980, but Walden resurrected the label ten years later in Nashville, kicking off the return with the debut album from Widespread Panic and the eclectic band Sonia Dada.

Walden was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1986. Phil Walden died of cancer at the age of 66 in his home in Atlanta on April 23, 2006.

James Pierce was an All-American center during his time with the Indiana Hoosiers. After graduating college, James coached high school football and in his spare time, pursued acting. His most notable achievement during his time as an actor was being the fourth man to star as Tarzan in a movie, Tarzan and the Golden Lion.

Price  joined United Press in 1912 and the Associated Press (AP) soon after, where he stayed for 29 years except for two years in the United States Army during World War I. Price served as the AP’s Washington bureau chief and, in 1937, became executive news editor of the organization.

Price became the U.S. Director of Censorship on December 19, 1941. This was a day after the First War Powers Act was established. The position allowed Price to censor international communication, issue censorship rules, and set up two advisory panels to assist him in his duties. For his “creation and administration of the newspaper and radio codes” at the Office of Censorship, Price received a special Pulitzer Prize in 1944. In 1946, President Harry S. Truman presented him with the Medal for Merit for “exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services as Director, Office of Censorship, from December 20, 1941, until August 15, 1945.”

After the Office closed in November 1945, Price did not return to the AP. Instead he became a vice-president of the Motion Picture Association of America, then an Assistant Secretary General at the United Nations until retiring in 1954. During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 Price reluctantly agreed to resume direction of censorship if war broke out with the Soviet Union. The Byron Price papers are located at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison, WI.

James Pritchett was an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Matt Powers on the soap opera, The Doctors. He was born in Lenoir, North Carolina in 1922. He appeared in the serial for its duration, from 1963 to 1982, and was the soap’s central cast members. The Dr. Powers character was one of the serial’s “tent pole” characters, to use an industry expression.

Phil Pritchett is a rock and roll musician from Texas. Members of his band have varied over the years. Phil’s performance to his eighth grade class of The Beatles Love Me Do first inspired him to enter into music. Phil got his real musical start at age 13 starting a Van Halen-style cover band and started playing local parties. His original high school band the Suburbans was an acclaimed Texas rock trio before breaking up in 1990.

Phil graduated from Highland Park High School in 1990, and entered Southwestern University studying History. At Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, Pritchett formed the eclectic acoustic duo Romantic Embargo with friend James Dewitt. They played regularly in Austin and surrounding cities and made two recordings, a live tape Cut Me Some Slacks and a CD Central Chilling Station No.5.

Pritchett went out on his own in 1996 and spent five years living in Austin, Texas and playing his original music to fans all over Texas and the South and building a large regional fan base. He started Spitune Records in 1995 and began recording and releasing his music independently. After a brief stint in Nashville, he moved back to Texas and has been touring consistently since 2002, often playing 150 shows a year or more.

Pritchett is known for his insightful songs, artistic albums and his live performances. His high-energy shows around Texas and the surrounding areas are known for the performances of songs such as Song of the Doorman, High Tide in the Heartland, Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones, Colorado On Trial, Tougher Than the Rest and the all-time fan-favorites: Maria, Snuff Machine, Antarctica U.S.A., Drink When I Think and Rolling.

In 2006, Pritchett opened Trinidad World Recording in the Fort Worth Stockyards to self-produce his album High Tide in the Heartland. After the release of High Tide, he was asked to produce records for other acts at Trinidad. His producing credits include projects by Texas High Life, Johns Guns, Ty Wick, Magee Payne, Kurt South, J.D. Clark, Kyle Redd, Clay Thrash, Kevin Smith, Slow Rollin’ Lows, Zach Huckabee, Mike Mathis, Notorious Gringos, Change of Standard and several of his own albums. Trinidad World Recording is now located in the old Handley post office in Fort Worth. Phil has played with many of the fan favorites in Texas including Jack Ingram, Roger Creager, Honeybrowne and others.

Kevin Reilly is the president of TV channels TBS and TNT and Chief Creative Officer for Turner Entertainment. He is the former Chairman of Entertainment for the Fox Broadcasting Company, where he oversaw all prime-time development, programming, scheduling, marketing, research, digital and business affairs for the network.

Prior to this he has also worked for FX and been the President of NBC. Reilly served as President of Entertainment for FX. In that role, Reilly helped redefine the basic cable business with an aggressive slate of original quality programming including The Shield, Nip/Tuck, and Rescue Me. Within a year of his arrival, FX made cable history with its seminal series, The Shield, which broke cable ratings records when it premiered and went on to receive a Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Series and an Emmy Award for lead actor Michael Chiklis.

During the beginning of the 20th century there was bar a more prominent military and war journalist than Richard Little. Little was a renown journalist known for his efforts to get right into the heart of the story. He covered the Spanish-American War and the Filipino revolts against the United States before the turn of the century. He followed this with being a more prevalent face of the conflicts on the Russo-Japanese War.

During this struggle he was at one point imprisoned by the Russian army for what they believe was him harboring Japanese soldiers. Little followed this with covering the first World War, where he sustained a broken leg and several head injuries while acquiring war stories.

His peers at The Pantograph had this to say of Little’s ability, “He was a racehorse who was bored sick by being hitched to a buggy. Between wars the local reporting was a dull field and Dick was a difficult child for the city editor to manage, but give him a war and he could come out in real fashion.”