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Known as "the master of the soft sell" for his artful leadership and participatory management style, Francis M. Hipp led Liberty for more than 50 years, first as president of Liberty Life and then as president of The Liberty Corporation, which he formed in In the process, he guided Liberty Life to prominence as one of the top insurance companies in the nation.

At the same time, he was building Cosmos Broadcasting from a single radio station into a major television broadcaster. Frank and Eunice Jane Halfacre Hipp. He attended The Citadel from to and graduated from Furman University in Hipp's father started his own insurance career as a general agent with Spartanburg-based Southeastern Life in He left Southeastern in to form The Liberty Life, and 11 years later he bought controlling interest in Southeastern Life.

Frank Hipp believed radio would be an excellent medium for advertising his insurance companies, and in he bought WIS in Columbia, a fledgling radio station in financial trouble.

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After graduating from Furman, Francis Hipp went to work for Liberty Life, first in the investment area and then in marketing. When Frank Hipp died unexpectedly in , the directors elected Francis Hipp to succeed his father as president. He was 31 years old, the same age his father had been when he founded The Liberty Life.