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After her divorce from Mortimer, Barbara received a settlement from a trust fund. In 1946, she met William "Pasha" Paley, who was estranged from his wife Dorothy Hart Hearst (1908–1998), the former wife of John Randolph Hearst. William Paley was wealthy and interested in the arts, and sought acceptance in New York's café society. Barbara's ...
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 ...
Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley, born Barbara Cushing, was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 5, 1915 to the brain surgeon Harvey Cushing and Katharine Stone. Cushing had two older sisters, Mary ...
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.
Barbara “Babe” Paley (Naomi Watts) Babe Paley in New York July 1963. WWD - Getty Images. ... before marrying Howard Hawks after his divorce from Athole Shearer. Hawks, however, was unfaithful ...
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 ...
William Samuel Paley (September 28, 1901 – October 26, 1990) [1] 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 of the foremost radio and television network operations in the United States.
The two married on an estate in Long Island owned by Keith’s friends, Bill and Barbara Paley. It was during this marriage that Capote would befriend Keith. However, in 1960, Hayward divorced ...