John T. "Jack" Lupton, a Coca-Cola bottling magnate whose philanthropy drove Chattanooga's renaissance in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, died Sunday, May 16, 2010, at his Lookout Mountain ...

Last Thursday, wherever he may have been in the afterlife, I fully believe Jack Lupton was smiling like he just made a 15-foot, double-breaker, downhill for a 2.