Aligning image to the top of a table cell

I’m designing a wordpress page inside of the wordpress editor, and I can’t figure out how to get the grey image placeholder to align to the top of the table cell. As long as the text in the left cell doesn’t go below the grey image, everything is fine. But as soon as the text gets below the bottom of the image, the image pushes down. Here’s the code:

<table border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">
<img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-71" alt="webi" src="#" 
width="437"     height="114" />                                                                      
&nbsp;
<p>
SOME TEXT
</p>
</td>
<td style="width: 355px;">
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-61"   alt="palvelut_kuvapaikka" 
src="#"  
align="top" width="355" height="355" /> 
 </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>