Upon completion in 1989, Tulane Gym was renamed "Avron B. Fogelman Arena" in honor of the Memphis businessman and Tulane alumnus whose donations funded the project.

The station signed on the air on December 31, 1994, under the call letters WFBI and was owned by Memphis businessman, radiologist (and later Shelby County commissioner) George Flinn.

Union and Planters Bank was founded by William Farrington, a Memphis businessman who had prospered during the American Civil War and emerged the wealthy head of an insurance company.

"I just keep thinking there's got to be a catch, they can't really be doing this," said C. Kemmons Wilson Jr., a Memphis businessman whose father was the founder of Holiday Inns Inc.

Among the victims that year were three young Memphis businessmen who had apparently generated enmity among their white competitors.

In September 1989, the league sold the team to new ownership, a group of Memphis businessmen.

It began in 1975 when a Memphis businessman, noting that his city was named after the somewhat older on in Egypt, provided a grant to buy 44 Egyptian objects from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Fulmer supplied details of recruiting violations by the Alabama booster Logan Young, a wealthy Memphis businessman.

So did most of those Memphis businessmen who had ever had the misfortune to join him for a meal.

In 1968, the road was named after Sam Cooper, a Memphis businessman and longtime president of the Humko Corporation, a refinery of vegetable oils.