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...Sunday, Ike went to 8:30 a.m. services at the neighborhood Corona Presbyterian Church, walking the 2½ blocks from Mrs Doud's home. Just before he started, Ike noticed in Denver's Rocky Mountain News a story about six-year-old Paul Haley, who is slowly dying of cancer...
Paul's greatest wish, said the story, was to see Ike, whom he admires even more than his TV-cowboy heroes. A few minutes after church services ended, a trim figure of a man strode up to the Haleys' small clapboard house in West Denver. "Good morning," said the President of the U.S. to wide-eyed Paul Haley. "I hear you want to see me." He chatted for five minutes, then slipped away before reporters and photographers could find...
...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...
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...