Background
His father was oil broker, Roderick Tower and his mother was Flora Payne Whitneya child of the Vanderbilt-Whitney marriage. Whitney Tower"s parents divorced and when he was four, his mother remarried to MacCulloch Miller.
His father was oil broker, Roderick Tower and his mother was Flora Payne Whitneya child of the Vanderbilt-Whitney marriage. Whitney Tower"s parents divorced and when he was four, his mother remarried to MacCulloch Miller.
Tower graduated from Saint George"s School in Middletown, Rhode Island, and Harvard University.
From 1948 to 1954, Tower worked as a sports reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer.
He then joined the fledgling Sports Illustrated magazine where he served as horse racing editor for twenty-two years during which time he received the National Thoroughbred Racing Association"s magazine writing award. The magazine reported on horse racing matters not only from North America but from around the world as well and won Media Eclipse Awards in 1976-1977.
