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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] William C. "Bill" Paley (born 1948), [18] who relaunched La Palina, a cigar company established by grandfather Sam Paley in 1896. [9]
Babe Paley, potrayed by Naomi Watts in Ryan Murphy's Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, was Capote's favorite. So, why did the writer betray the queen of midcentury New York High Society?
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 ...
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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 ...
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.
Babe Paley died in 1974, aged 63, from lung cancer. She will long be remembered for her elegant sense of style. In 1941, she was ranked by Time magazine as the second-best-dressed woman in the world.
Another factor was that Gunsmoke was the favorite TV program of Barbara Paley, wife of CBS Chief Executive William Paley. Westerns had already been targeted by parents' groups opposing television violence, and by those concerned about portrayals of Native Americans.