Bette Nesmith Graham for USD $47.5 million in 1979. At the time, her company employed 200 people and made 25 million bottles of Liquid Paper per year. Bette Nesmith died on May 12, 1980, at the age of 56, in Richardson, Texas. From the start, Graham ran her company with a unique combination of spirituality, egalitarianism, and pragmatism. Raised a Methodist, Graham converted to Christian Science in 1942, and this faith inspired the development of her corporate "Statement of Policy". Part-code of ethics, part-business philosophy, it covered everything from her belief in a "Supreme Being" to a focus on decentralized decision making and
The Michael Nesmith Radio Special The Michael Nesmith Radio Special In 1980, Pacific Arts issued "The Michael Nesmith Radio Special" to promote Nesmith's album "Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma". Because "Infinite Rider" was originally designed as a multimedia project, the radio special was designed to increase awareness of Nesmith's audio-visual productions, as well as promote the album. The radio special comprises segments of an interview with Nesmith intercut with tracks from "Infinite Rider". Within the interview, Nesmith discusses The Monkees. The discussion of his (then-)former band was the first acknowledgement Nesmith made since his 1970 album, "Magnetic South". As with many of Nesmith's compositions,