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Most of the bright, personable U.S. propagandists in London were on OWI's payroll. CBS's restless William Paley, 43, his dog tag made by Cartier, bombarded Europe by radio. Litteratéur Lewis Galan-tiere plotted U.S. propaganda for France. Ace Hollywood Scenarist Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), intermittently in & out of London, Washington and Sicily since 1941, managed the OWI film division. Deep in publications & pamphlets: the Viking Press's wealthy president, Harold Guinz-burg, and wealthy George Backer (who was reported to be spending his idle hours translating...
William S. Paley, elegant-dressing president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, was ready for shipment overseas to join OWI's psychological warfare crews in the Mediterranean area. Off & on for a week he had been doing muscle building, studying pamphleteering, intelligence gathering, short-wave receiving at the indoctrination school on the vast Marshall Field estate on Long Island. Cartier, the dazzling Manhattan jewelry firm, had finished...
...testimony before the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, Fly indicated that the Sanders Bill would hamstring reform, and declared, "If you want to turn this vast industry over to a couple of men in New York [presumably RCA President David Sarnoff and CBS President William Paley] you can go ahead...
...Said CBS President Paley: "The propaganda method of democracy is to tell the truth...
...Columbia's President William S. Paley, the dedication of La Cadena last week was the realization of a dream. It was also something of a financial nightmare. Operating at an estimated annual cost of $800,000, the network is entirely noncommercial, probably will sell no advertising until export business revives after the war. CBS profits are purely in pride...