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...GLORY: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM S. PALEY...
...summer of 1927, Sam Paley, a Philadelphia cigar manufacturer, paid $50 a week to a fledgling local radio station to air The La Palina Hour, a musical-variety show that would advertise his cigars. His son Bill, a company vice president, objected to the decision, which had been made while he was traveling in Europe. But years later, when William S. Paley recalled that early encounter with radio, the story had changed. He was the one, Paley said, who started the radio show -- while his father was traveling in Europe...
...LIVES: Casey by Joseph E. Persico -- The secrets of businessman-spook William. The Colonel by Godfrey Hodgson -- Henry Stimson's life and active service. Gorbachev by Gail Sheehy -- From playpen to perestroika. What a guy! Ronald Reagan: An American Life -- Now he remembers! In All His Glory: William S. Paley by Sally Bedell Smith -- The prime time of TV's most glamorous tycoon. A Life of Picasso by John Richardson -- Volume I, 1881 to 1906, by the artist's scholarly friend. Blown Away by A.E. Hotchner -- Drugs, death and the Rolling Stones. A Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes...
...habit of chattering on the Tonight show and of lunching with the glossy wives of moneyed men diminished his serious reputation as it increased his notoriety. He began to take on the appearance of a piffler, a court jester to such rich beauties as Babe Paley, wife of longtime CBS Chairman William Paley, and Slim Keith, wife of British Financier Lord Keith. Clarke comments that Capote looked upon the stylish rich "the way the Greeks looked upon their gods, with mingled awe and envy." To amuse these friends, he invented a game called International Daisy Chain, in which the point...
...sale of CBS's labels leaves the U.S. recording industry dominated by overseas owners. (Polygram is controlled by the Dutch, RCA by the West Germans and Capitol by the British.) Yet in a sense, CBS Records is only passing from one revered entrepreneur, Paley, to another, Akio Morita, who is responsible for the Walkman and other breakthroughs. Morita, who favors classical music, seems determined not to mess up the good beat at CBS. His company has offered a package of some $20 million in compensation to persuade CBS Records' bearded, brassy chief, Walter Yetnikoff, 54, to stay...