William S. Paley
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William Samuel Paley was an American businessman, primarily involved in the media, and best known as the chief executive who built the Columbia Broadcasting System from a small radio network into one
Paley in 1939
Walter Cronkite and Paley discussing CBS 1980 election coverage
Samuel L. Paley library at Temple University, named for William S. Paley's father
Louise Brooks
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Mary Louise Brooks was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during
William S. Paley
…Dorothy ended when a newspaper published a suicide note written to Paley by a former girlfriend. He provided a small stipend to a former lover, actress Louise Brooks, for the rest of her life. In his later years he enjoyed keeping company with several women. Paley was included in a list of the ten most eligible…
Brooks c. 1926
Brooks as a sophomore in high school, 1922. She had worn bobbed hair since childhood.
Brooks and Gregory Kelly in The Show-Off (1926)
Brooks and Gustav von Seyffertitz in The Canary Murder Case (1929)