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...brass who make up society in New York. With them Soule was always cool, correct and attentive. Recalls the New York Times's Charlotte Curtis: "He would arrange his people around the room as if he were a woman preparing for a ball. He would put Mrs. William Paley on one banquette like a huge bouquet of flowers, Mrs. John Pell on another side, and perhaps Elizabeth Arden in still a third corner...
...last year gave eight pages in color, titled "The Young Joyous Life," to Amanda and her 23-year-old Harvard and Columbia Law School student husband, S. Carter Burden Jr. For in the judgment of her peers, Amanda is a delight. A stepdaughter of CBS President William Paley, her mother is Babs Paley, one of Boston's famous Gushing sisters, herself on the best-dressed list for years and a member of the Hall of Fame...
...Wear makes up an important swatch of every theater audience; garment manufacturers are traditional theatergoers as well as busy entertainers of out-of-town buyers. And in the smart set that reads the paper for more than its fashion reports (among them: Pat Lawford, Rosalind Russell and Mrs. William Paley), the critic's reputation has spread cross-country...
Responsive Chord. The all-Starrs at least had the consolation of being on to a good thing. Their gown-featured in the June Vogue and snapped up by such fashion luminaries as Mrs. William Paley and Actress Anita Colby-is the dress of the month, and sounds one of the strongest fashion chords of 1965: the one-bare shoulder look. Jackie Kennedy may have triggered the trend when she wore a black crepe version for her first formal outing after a year of mourning. It has been used by Balenciaga in a $3,000 evening sari, by Givenchy...
...bought control of the New York Yankees? No. Did CBS intend to enclose Yankee Stadium with a dome similar to Houston's new Astrodome? Emphatically no. Had CBS bought Comedian Jackie Gleason's $300,000 circular home as "a reducing spa for tired executives?" No, said Paley, it had bought the house to "induce Mr. Gleason to stay on CBS." Paley kept calm, but the audience was clearly irritated. When Paley asked at one point, "Does anyone in this audience have any idea how to handle this situation?", there was a shout from the audience: "Throw them...