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...stand against the rising hemline and resist. But she may soon find herself in a dwindling minority. Dress Designer Mainbocher speaks comfortingly of "client length," but he admits that his skirts are a full inch shorter than last year, now just shadow the knee. And even Mrs. Wil liam Paley, secure in the Best-Dressed Hall of Fame, has heard the call: "I'm wearing mine slightly above the knee, but I honestly don't know what I'm going to do in the future...
...fact, it was as much Schneider's authority as Schneider's decision that rankled Friendly. Only two weeks ago, Board Chairman William Paley, 64, had announced that he and President Frank Stanton, 57, would "draw back a bit." In turn, Stanton brought in Schneider, 39, who last year had become president of CBS-TV to replace discredited Jim Aubrey. Where once Friendly reported to the top brass, he now found himself dealing with Schneider. Friendly has plenty of brass himself and apparently decided to test his own, mettle...
Outlandish Politics. In a broadside letter of resignation, he called Schneider's decision 1) a "mockery of the Paley-Stanton crusade for broadest access to congressional debate," and 2) a "business, not a news judgment." Moreover, he added, the revised chain of command was an "emasculation" of his authority, a surrender to a man, he contemptuously noted, whose "news credentials were limited in the past to local station operations, with little experience in national or international affairs." In short, it was a stand for principle, and the emotional Friendly included in his letter references to his longtime colleague Edward...
Since Friendly had made such a big case out of a disagreeable administrative decision, Paley and Stanton had to stick with their group V.P., all of which only underscored the absurdity of TV's outlandish office politics. For devotees of television's best work, it was too bad. Fred Friendly, for all his hair-triggery, brought much high-quality programming to television, won many prizes for his documentary work (See It Now, CBS Reports), and helped to make Ed Murrow an event...
...Zionist movement finally saw daylight last week. CBS Board Chairman William Paley announced plans to convert the site of the defunct Stork Club (TIME, Oct. 15) into a lot-size (42 ft. by 100 ft.) public park as a memorial to his father, Cigar Czar Samuel Paley, who died in 1963. The $1,000,000 plaza, which is to be completed this summer, will be New York's first midtown "waistcoat" park, and the first privately endowed public park in the city. Designed by Zion, it will feature a canopy of 24 intertwined locust trees, individual chairs...