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...three commercial television networks, Associate Editor Gerald Clarke staged his own offensive to obtain appointments with the top official at each. After loosing a barrage of phone calls and an enfilade of promises to "go anywhere any time" to meet them, Clarke finally managed to interview CBS's Paley and ABC's Pierce in Manhattan, and helped arrange a breakfast in Beverly Hills between NBC's Silverman and Correspondent James Willwerth. That triple play represents the first time all three executives have granted interviews for a story on their industry...
Some journalists who cover TV consider Paley, 77, a particularly elusive subject, but Clarke discovered the chairman of CBS to be gracious and cooperative. Their 1½-hour meeting took place in Paley's office, a "wonderfully opulent but understated room," according to the TIME visitor, with paintings by Picasso and Rouault and a chemin defer table from Paris now used as a desk and, for this occasion, a tape recorder. "I asked Paley if he minded if I used my tape recorder," says Clarke. " 'No,' he replied, 'as long as you don't mind...
...have a very strong feeling that we have to elevate the medium," William S. Paley, chairman of the board of CBS, said in an interview published this week in Newsweek. Flatbush premiered Monday at 8:30 p.m. on channel seven in an effort, I suppose, to reassure the viewers that they need not fear any elevation of the precious lack of quality on television. This program seemed somehow even more offensive than The $1.98 Beauty Show because it came from a network with a history of excellence and pretensions of continued quality. An inept rip-off of Saturday Night Fever...
DIED. Barbara Gushing Paley, 63, graceful socialite and one of the world's best-dressed women; of cancer; in Manhattan. "Babe" Paley was introduced early to high society as one of three beautiful daughters of Boston Neurosurgeon Harvey Gushing. She first hit the best-dressed lists "on nothing a year" as a fashion editor for Vogue magazine, choosing simple but striking clothes that marked her quiet sense of personal style. In 1947 she married William S. Paley, chairman of the board of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and came to embody a standard of elegance by which social functions...
...William Paley. L.H.D., chairman of the board, CBS. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, LL.D., U.S. Senator, New York...