Fred Rheinstein, Founder of The Post Group, Dies

... first network Bob Hope Show and every one thereafter for five years. Drafted into the Army in 1950, he returned to New York in 1952 as the AD and part-time director on the daily Kate Smith Show . Later that year he was transferred to Los Angeles ...

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