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...Throw Them Out." CBS Chairman William S. Paley had not even gaveled his overflow audience to order in Manhattan before a woman stockholder in red-feathered hat and raffish earrings got up to make a loud complaint: she had, she said, been issued a subpoena to keep quiet at the meeting. (Subpoenas are not issued for such purposes, and CBS said it had sought no order against her.) When he could finally get a word in, Paley proceeded to the meeting's business, which included the abrupt firing two months ago of CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey...
...Saturday afternoon, still brushing the sunshine out of his hair, he was in Manhattan's Regency Hotel with CBS Board Chairman William Paley and CBS President Frank Stanton, a onetime psychology professor whose somewhat academic manner is quite a contrast to Aubrey's sleek flamboyance. The session lasted 30 minutes, and almost no one knew it had taken place. But at 3 Sunday afternoon, Stanton sent a terse telegram to New York papers that Aubrey had "resigned," although his "outstanding accomplishments need no elaboration; his extraordinary record speaks for itself...
...years. Owning a club in the world's biggest market also puts CBS in a stronger position to deal with the pay-TV problem, since the network will be able to control whether the Yankees are seen for free or for pay. In fact, CBS Chairman William S. Paley and President Frank Stanton had been secretly negotiating with the Yanks for more than a year. Last week, they put up the kind of money that, as Topping said, "you just can't walk away from...
...glass of fashion, it was indeed the mold of form. When Amanda Jay ("Ba") Mortimer, 20, pacesetting daughter of Best-Dressed Mrs. William S. Paley and Manhattan Socialite Stanley Mortimer, married Law Student Shirley Carter Burden Jr., 22, on Long Island, Women's Wear Daily styled it in advance as "the wedding of the year." Ba wore white organza by Mainbocher; Ma, coral plaid taffeta by Dior. But it was more than that, and the reception at the estate of CBS Chairman Paley proved a crossroads of several worlds: Mr. and Mrs. Winston Guest, Actress Lauren Bacall, Mr. Kenneth...
...anyone doubts who runs CBS, the oil-smooth words of CBS-TV's President Aubrey should put the doubts to rest. "Mr. Paley doesn't dictate," says Aubrey. "He leads by persuasion. If you differ with him, by the time you're through talking with him he has indicated how his point of view had more to recommend it than yours...