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...best-dressed women (picked by a poll run by the New York Dress Institute) had the same Old Look. The Duchess of Windsor topped it (for the third time). Mrs. Harrison Williams, as usual, was among those present, and so were Mrs. John C. Wilson and Mrs. William Paley (who used to be present as Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr.). Mrs. Howard Hawks, who was in No. 1 position last year, was in No. 8 this time. Actress Ina Claire, on the list for the first time, was already weary of it all. "I decline absolutely," she announced, posing in front...
...William S. Paley, millionaire president of Columbia Broadcasting Co., by his marriage to Registerite Barbara Gushing Mortimer, one of the three beautiful daughters of Boston's late great surgeon, Harvey Gushing...
Married. Kathleen Harriman, 29, pretty daughter of Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman; and Stanley Grafton Mortimer Jr., 34, Manhattan socialite; she for the first time, he for the second; in Arden, N.Y. Mortimer's first wife, Barbara Gushing, divorced him last year, married CBS Board Chairman William Paley last July...
...predestined: "I'm a very religious guy, you know. I believe that everyone has his own niche. . . ." From Deerfield Academy, destiny took Gordon to NBC as a $16-a-week pageboy. But he did not get very far, so the story goes, until CBS Board Chairman William Paley heard him sing...
Married. William Samuel Paley, 45, board chairman and principal stockholder of the Columbia Broadcasting System; and Barbara Gushing Mortimer, 30, svelte brunette daughter of the late great brain surgeon, Dr. Harvey Gushing; both for the second time; in Manhasset, N.Y. Five days before, he had been divorced in Reno by Dorothy Hart Paley, 38, who reportedly got a $1,500,000 settlement, after 15 years of marriage, two children (adopted...