Word: haleys
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...representative to the U.N. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he entered the foreign service ia 1908 when he was 24, in 1938 was appointed Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In the BBC his first job will be to choose a director-general to replace Sir William Haley, who is leaving in September to become editor of the London Times. Said Cadogan, who has never seen British television, rarely listens to the radio: "I know nothing about the BBC. I haven't the slightest idea why I was chosen...
...year-old novice on Fleet Street, William J. Haley got his first job on London's Times answering the telephone. Last week at 51, Sir William Haley, now director general of the British Broadcasting Corp., got ready to go to work for the Times again, this time as editor. Named to the top editorial spot in British journalism and the first titled editor ever to run the venerable Times (circ. 231,659), Sir William takes the place of William F. Casey, 68, who, after four years in the editor's chair and four decades on the paper...
Born in the Channel Islands, Haley quit school at 16 to go to sea as a telegrapher on a tramp steamer. Later, he cubbed on a provincial paper, did his brief stint on the Times and went up to Manchester to become a reporter on the Evening News. In a short time he was named news editor. He disdained a desk, worked standing up at a breast-high table so he would lose no time dashing off to composing room or editor's office. His nose for news was so sharp that, at 29, he was named editor...
When BBC created the job of editor in chief in 1943, Haley took it. In nine months he was promoted to director general, was responsible for the "Light Program," Britain's most popular, and the famed highbrow "Third Program." Even though BBC's board is appointed by the government, Haley was no subservient government servant. Fleet Streeters expect that at the Times Sir William will also run his own show. For many years the Times often behaved as if it were the unofficial voice of the government, no matter what the government's political stripe. But since...
District Attorney Alan ("Chick") Haley, who had recruited him for the job, refused to give Garza's real name, but he disclosed a few details of the agent's background. The youth's father, a law-enforcement officer, was killed by dope smugglers when the boy was seven; after Garza grew up and served a four-year hitch in the Marines, he became...