William S. Paley

William Samuel Paley ( born September 28, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, † October 26, 1990 in New York City ) was an American journalist and media official.

Life

His father, Samuel Paley, a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant, owned a successful company in the manufacture of cigars and moved to Philadelphia with his family in the early 1920s. Paley attended Western Military Academy in Alton. He studied at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania economics. 1927 acquired his father with some business partners together a radio station network in Philadelphia with 16 radio stations, the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (CBS). Under the leadership of his son William Paley Paley family succeeded within a year in 1928 to reach the entrepreneurial majority of the radio network. The number of radio stations has increased to 114.

After the Second World War, CBS expanded from 1946 in the television entertainment and sat on entertainment and news (CBS News with news program 60 Minutes ) in the TV station. Under his advocacy was Frank Stanton 1946 President, 1959, James T. Aubrey, Jr. followed as president.

In 1976 he founded the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles and New York City. He supported the Library of Temple University, which received the name of his father. As a philanthropist, he also gave funds for the Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s. In 1968 he acquired together with a syndicate from the collection of Gertrude Stein six works by Pablo Picasso for the Museum of Modern Art, and took over the chairmanship of the museum, which he held until 1985. After his death, more than 80 works of his art collection came as a donation to the museum. These include works by Paul Cézanne, André Derain, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse and Picasso were.

In his first marriage he was married to Dorothy Hart Hearst from 1932 to 1947. His second wife he married in 1947 Barbara Cushing Mortimer, to whom he was married until her death in 1978. From his first marriage he had two adopted children from the second marriage and two more children.

Prizes and Awards (selection)

Literature (selection )

  • As It Happened: A Memoir. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979.
  • David Halberstam: The Powers That Be. New York: Knopf, 1979.
  • Robert Metz: CBS: Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1983.
  • Lewis J. Paper Empire: William S. Paley and the Making of CBS. New York: St. Martin's, 1987.
  • Robert Slater: This ... Is CBS: A Chronicle Of 60 Years. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall, 1988.
  • Sally Bedell Smith: In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley, the Legendary Tycoon and His Brilliant Circle. Simon and Schuster, New York 1990.
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