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Barbara's social connections provided him a better chance of gaining entry into the exclusive circles that had previously eluded him. For Barbara, William Paley offered wealth, security, and worldly experiences. William's divorce was finalized July 24, 1947. He and Barbara married the following year. She had two children with Paley: [9]
The year of that divorce, Babe met television executive William Paley and the two wed in 1947. Both offered qualities that the other desperately needed. Babe, accustomed to the finer things in ...
Barbara "Babe" Paley was the youngest child of neurosurgeon surgeon Dr. Harvey Cushing and socialite Katharine Crowell Cushing. Her mother, according to Leamer's book, wished for one thing for her ...
The Swans, based on journalist Laurence Leamer’s nonfiction book, focuses on American journalist Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) and his group of high society New York City socialites in the early ...
His paternal grandfather was Richard Mortimer, a real estate investor and member of Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Through his father and paternal grandmother, Eleanor Jay Chapman Mortimer , she was a descendant of the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Jay ...
Burden is the daughter of socialite Babe Paley and her first husband, Stanley G. Mortimer Jr. (1913–1999), an heir to the Standard Oil fortune. [2] She is a descendant of the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Jay, and a granddaughter of Dr. Harvey Cushing, the "Father of American Neurosurgery" and Pulitzer Prize winning author.
Paley’s first husband was oil heir Stanley Mortimer Jr. In 1947, she married Bill Paley, the executive who took CBS from a small radio network to one of the most powerful media companies in the ...
After their divorce, Babe married William S. Paley, the longtime head of CBS. In 1947, [ 22 ] Mortimer remarried to Kathleen Lanier Harriman (1917–2011), [ 23 ] the daughter of W. Averell Harriman ( U.S. Ambassador to Russia and the U.K., a governor of New York and a U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman ) and a ...