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Columbia's black-haired young President William S. Paley gave as his reason for the change, which will deprive Colum bia of revenue estimated at more than $10,000 per week, the desire to avoid "re sponsibility ... of allotting time on a commercial basis to different religions and different preachers." But another reason was imputed to Columbia last week by Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Detroit, whose weekly talk over a 16-station hook-up was a Columbia religious feature last year. Father Coughlin several years ago began to be heard over...
...Prince of Wales liked his voice so much that he had him sing an encore eleven times, but that was no guarantee that he would be able to make a luxurious living in Manhattan. Troubadour Downey had nothing much in his pocket except a cable from William S. Paley, president of Columbia Broadcasting Co., promising him a chance. In November he started the Delmonico Club, broadcast from it first once a week, then three times. Radio listeners liked his voice?high, sweet, and vaguely Irish?so much that a month later he was given a chance to compete with Blackfacists...
Practically forgotten when he returned to Manhattan after another London venture last autumn, Morton Downey owes his present affluence largely to Columbia's William S. Paley. Able Salesman Paley, eager to entice Camel advertising from the National Broadcasting Co., persuaded him to sing a sample program through a long-distance telephone to Winston-Salem, N. C., where it was relayed to Camel executives through a local station. It was an ideal episode for his recrudescent success story for Downey did his telephonic trial while his wife was undergoing a surgical operation...
...three-story Manhattan penthouse apartment of William S. Paley, 27-year-old president of Columbia Broadcasting Co., was given a house-warming while the owner was in Chicago. The decorator, Lee Simonson, theatrical designer, played host, showed the guests a dressing room with racks for 100 shirts, 100 neckties; a fancy barroom reached by an aluminum staircase; a bed to live in, equipped with bookshelves, light switches, radio panel...
Married. Lucien Lelong, selfstyled inventor of the "kinetic theory* of feminine dress," and smart, leading Parisian couturier; to Princess Natalie Paley, daughter (by a morganatic marriage) of the late Grand Duke Paul, an uncle of Tsar Nicholas II; at Paris...