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Name: William S. Paley
Birth Date: September 28, 1901
Death Date: October 26, 1990
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: business executive

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Biography of William S. Paley
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Founder and chairman of the Columbia Broadcasting System, William S. Paley (1901-1990) was called alternately a broadcast programmer par excellence, an impresario, a super salesman, and the father of modern broadcasting. Because of his instinctive...


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Paley, William S. (1901-1990) Summary
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William S. "Bill" Paley was the son of Samuel and Goldie Paley, Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine who founded a cigar manufacturing company in 1896 in Chicago; the company was later incorporated as the Congress Cigar Company and...
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Paley, William S. (1901-1990) Summary
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For more than 50 years, CBS and William S. Paley were synonymous. In 1927, Paley was involved with the formation of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and in 1928, his family purchased the company. The network grew quickly under Paley's...
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William S. Paley Information
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William Samuel Paley (September 28, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois – October 26, 1990 in New York, New York) was the chief executive who built CBS from a small radio network to one of the foremost radio and television network operations in...


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The Washington Post
Networking With William S. Paley
08/30/1987: 1,152 words, approx. 4 pages
EMPIRE William S. Paley and the Making of CBS By Lewis J. Paper St. Martin's. 384 pp. $19.95 AT A PRIVATE luncheon some 20 years ago, the two pioneering leaders of American broadcasting, David Sarnoff and William Paley, discussed retirement. "Bill told me,"...
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The Washington Post
Tribute to The Titan of CBS; In N.Y., a Farewell to William S. Paley
11/13/1990: 1,014 words, approx. 3 pages
You needed a ticket to get a good seat. There were stars disembarking from limos and photographers straining at the barricades and sidewalk spectators watching the stars and the photographers. The event took on the coloration of a society ball or a Broadway opening,...
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AP News
Longtime president of CBS dies at 98
12/25/2006: 735 words, approx. 3 pages
Frank Stanton, a broadcasting pioneer and CBS president for 26 years who helped turn its TV operation into the "Tiffany network" and built CBS News into a respected information source, has died. He was 98.Stanton died in his sleep at his Boston home on Sunday,...
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The New York Observer
The Mortimer Family
12/17/2006: 670 words, approx. 2 pages
If New York City has a reigning socialite in Tinsley Randolph Mercer Mortimer, it may be due in part to generations of Darwinian specialization among her new family. “The Mortimers have married so many people in so many families, they’re often referred to as the...
 


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