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N.A.R.'s fiction roams imaginatively over a wide landscape-from a Kafkaesque account of a prisoner-of-war interrogation in Viet Nam by Victor Kolpacoff to a bittersweet rendition of a mother's day in Washington Square Park by Grace Paley ("Kitty has three green-eyed daughters and they aren't that great . . . they are no worse than the average gifted, sensitive child of a wholehearted mother and half-a-dozen transient fathers...
Incongruous as a lemonade stand in Death Valley and just as refreshing, a wee minipark opened on East 53rd Street in Manhattan amidst the jam-packed office buildings, hotels and stores. Donated to the city just for the joy of it by CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley, 65, it is only 42 ft. wide and 100 ft. deep, yet Paley Park offers pooped passers-by a respite at little white tables and chairs in a setting of geraniums, honey locust trees, and a 20-ft. waterfall whose roar all but drowns out the yowl of city traffic. Paley opened...
...Development and Services Corporation (D & S), composed of Kennedy, Javits, a Lindsay representative, some of the most prominent corporate chiefs in the city--Thomas Watson Jr. (I.B.M.), William Paley (CBS)--former Treasury Secy. Douglas Dillon, former Deputy Defense Secy. Roswell Gilpatrick, and a number of others perfectly wiling to do Kennedy or Javits a favor. D & S will supervise overall planning; members were picked who would have the contacts to persuade banks to give loans and convince businesses to move in, the expertise to help residents set up their own enterprises, and the political clout to see that the community...
...York, CBS did just that by holding the meeting at Studio 41 in its Television City and showing a color-slide spectacular praising its achievements. Chairman William Paley remained unmoved when several stockholders complained about the quality of the CBS television schedule. After announcing that first-quarter earnings would drop about $1,000,000, although sales would rise to about $215 million, or 12% above the first quarter of last year, he formally announced two acquisitions-Creative Playthings and Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Two days earlier, RCA said its first-quarter sales and earnings were a record-$683 million...
Three years ago, when Friendly, now 52, was appointed head of the CBS news division, Board Chairman William Paley told him: "You have in your hands the most sacred trust that CBS has. Your job is to keep CBS news holy." That was asking a lot, even of Friendly, whose view of his role as TV's public-service prophet had always been relentlessly messianic. Television, as he said, "can make so much money doing its worst that it cannot afford to do its best." Inevitably, the headstrong "Big Moose," as Friendly was known around CBS, locked horns with...