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Otherwise, the power of the network grew as the Depression lengthened and private stations died. CBS president William Paley hit on the idea of offering his network's participant stations free unsponsored programs in exchange for the right to broadcast sponsored network series at any time he wished. Paley could sell national advertising spots without clearance fears; although this led to the domination of a large part of the broadcasting schedule by powerful commercial interests, it also afforded a great opportunity for original programming in the unsponsored time zones--allowing the off-beat a coast-to-coast audience...
Between Salz's Old World grace and Heller's breezy New York style, the range of dealers is wide. One New York firm, Rosenberg and Stiebel, which numbers Oilman Paul Getty and CBS Chairman William Paley among its customers, traces itself back for more than 100 years to an antique dealer in Frankfurt. Its rising generation includes American-born and -educated Gerald Stiebel, 25, great-grandson of the founder. Rosenberg and Stiebel handle million-dollar sales with casual aplomb. The Metropolitan bought the Merode altarpiece for the Cloisters through them ("Probably our most important sale," says Father Eric...
Halston's tie-dyed young and not so young include Actress Ali MacGraw, Best-Dresser Babe Paley, Vogue Editor Robin Butler and Model Naomi Sims. Film Star Liza Minnelli has commissioned Halston to dress her in tie-dye for her Waldorf opening next month...
Returning to Manhattan, Dellinger hoped to recruit a delegation that would span the spectrum of the peace movement. After days of negotiations, he settled upon Grace Paley, 46, a New York writer and worker in the Resistance, an antiwar organization; James A. Johnson Jr., a Negro who was one of the "Fort Hood Three"-three Army privates who in 1966 refused to serve in Viet Nam, and Linda...
Onassis. Mrs. Paley. The Duchess of Windsor. They would not know his own surname-Sardifia -from a sign of the Zodiac or a veal sauce. By his first name there is no mistaking Designer Adolfo, currently the big A of fashion...