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Other historical non-Sabbatarians from more recent times include the Anglicans Peter Heylin, William Paley and John Milton ; the nonconformist Philip Doddridge ; the Quaker Robert Barclay ; and Congregationalist James Baldwin Brown.
Paley argued that the world of nature displays more functional complexity than that found in the watch.
It was in this climate that Paley set out to " enhance the prestige of CBS, to make it seem in the public mind the more advanced, dignified and socially aware network.
Paley, arguing more than fifty years before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, held that the complexity of living organisms was evidence of the existence of a divine creator by drawing a parallel with the way in which the existence of a watch compels belief in an intelligent watchmaker.
Paley Senior's intention had been to use his acquisition as nothing more than an advertising medium for promoting the family's cigar business, which included the La Palina brand.
Within a year, under William's leadership, cigar sales had more than doubled, and, in 1928, the Paley family secured majority ownership of the network.
The advertisers then became the network's primary clients and, because of the wider distribution brought by the growing network, Paley was able to charge more for the ad time.
William S. Paley, briefly a consort during the war, said: " She is the greatest courtesan of the century ", meaning it more as a compliment than a detraction.
Paley classified tibial nonunions based on clinical and roentgenographic characteristics as Type A ( Bone loss of less than 1 cm ) and Type B ( Bone loss of more than 1 cm ).

Paley and installed
None of the three was interested in assuming day-to-day management of the network, so they installed wealthy 26-year-old William S. Paley, son of a Philadelphia cigar family and in-law of the Levys, as president.
A substantial gate of forged iron by Albert Paley was installed on the north side of the crypt level in 2008.

Paley and series
( A copy of the " series bible ", as revised for TAS, is held in the science fiction research collection at the Samuel Paley Library, Temple University, Philadelphia.
In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, a fan of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe radio serial, asked his programming chief, Hubell Robinson, to develop a hardboiled Western series, a show about a " Philip Marlowe of the Old West.
Bernstein founded the Muriel Rukeyser Center for the Arts in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York a place where Rukeyser said people had “ the opportunity to experience the arts where they live and work .” In this context, Bernstein also aired the Muriel Rukeyser reading series, On the Air, which featured interviews with Rukeyser, Robert Bly, Grace Paley, Denise Levertov, Audre Lorde, Quincy Troupe, and Gregory Orr.
The implication was that the network's sponsors were uneasy about some of the controversial topics of the series, leading Paley to worry about lost revenue to the network as well as unwelcome scrutiny during the era of McCarthyism.
In 1972, Paley ordered the shortening of a second installment of a two-part CBS Evening News series on the Watergate, based on a complaint by Charles Colson, an aide to President Richard M. Nixon.
In 1972 Paley married fellow poet ( and author of the Nghsi-Altai series ) Robert Nichols.
In 2011 the At the Paley Center's " She's Making Media " series featured women who use media in influential ways, including Glenn Close, Marlo Thomas, Jane Fonda, Arianna Huffington, Eve Ensler, and Maria Elena Salinas.
The 2012 At The Paley Center's " She's Making News " series features Katie Couric, Gayle King, Paula Zahn, Maria Bartiromo, Soledad O ' Brien, and Christiane Amanpour.

Paley and who
Paley was intimate with the Law family throughout his life, and the Bishop and his son John Law ( who was later an Irish bishop ) were instrumental during the decade after he left Cambridge in pressing him to publish his revised lectures and in negotiating with the publisher.
Paley was a man who valued style and taste, and in 1929, once he had his affiliates happy and his company's creditworthiness on the mend, he relocated his concern to sleek, new 485 Madison Avenue, the " heart of the advertising community, right where Paley wanted his company to be " and where CBS would stay until its move to Black Rock in 1965.
Second only to Paley as the author of CBS's style and ambitions in its first half-century, Stanton was " a magnificent mandarin who functioned as company superintendent, spokesman, and image-maker.
MoMA's Board of Trustees included Nelson Rockefeller and William S. Paley ( head of CBS ), who reportedly " hit the ceiling " on seeing the proofs of the poster.
These latter uses were brought about after 1920 by business entrepreneurs such as David Sarnoff, who created the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ), and William S. Paley, who built Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ).
Bush was on the board of directors of CBS, having been introduced to chairman William S. Paley around 1932 by his close friend and colleague William Averell Harriman, who became a major Democratic Party power-broker.
* In a 2008 online poll on Christmas specials by the Paley Center for Media, The Star Wars Holiday Special was selected by 59 % of the voters ( who selected 5 titles each ).
The Littlewood – Paley conjecture easily implies the Bieberbach conjecture using the Cauchy inequality, but it was soon disproved by, who showed there is an odd schlicht function with b < sub > 5 </ sub >
Other friends included Truman Capote, Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur, Barbara Hutton, Diana Vreeland, Cecil Beaton, Babe Paley and William S. Paley, Gloria Guinness and Loel Guinness and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor who were the godparents of their children.
William S. Paley ( September 28, 1901 – October 26, 1990 ) was the chief executive who built Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ) from a small radio network into one of the foremost radio and television network operations in the United States.
In short, Paley was the guy who put Frank Sinatra and Edward R. Murrow on the radio and 60 Minutes on television.
As noted, Paley was a notorious ladies ' man who was adored by women his whole life.
William S. Paley was the one who bought Columbia.
*" O. Paley " ( a quasi-anagram of " Alley Oop ") was the central figure in Philip José Farmer's The Alley Man, a 1959 novella about the last Neanderthal who has survived into the 20th century.
* Barbara Gordon as Mrs. Paley, a retired theoretical mathematician who worked for Izon.
William Paley believed that organisms were perfectly adapted to the lives they lead, an argument that shadowed Leibniz, who had argued that God had brought about the best of all possible worlds.
Onetime CBS News president Dick Salant, the legendary executive who preceded and later succeeded Friendly in the role, wrote in his memoirs that Friendly's problem was compounded by the fact he could not make such a request directly to the top CBS management ( William S. Paley and Frank Stanton ), as previous CBS News presidents had.
In some important points he anticipates the utilitarianism afterwards systematized by Paley, who expresses in the amplest terms his obligations to his predecessor.
Then CBS chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part.
It was founded in 1967 by a group of writers and educators including Herbert Kohl, June Jordan, Muriel Rukeyser, Grace Paley, and Anne Sexton, who believed that writers could make a unique contribution to the teaching of writing.
Grace Paley ( née Goodside ) was born in the Bronx to Isaac and Manya Ridnyik Goodside, who anglicized the family name from Gutseit on immigrating from Ukraine.

Paley and assumed
Earlier in the century David Hume had argued against notions of design with counter examples drawn from monstrosity, imperfect forms of testimony and probability, and it has been assumed that Paley could not have read Hume.
Still influenced by Paley, he assumed that variants emerged perfect, and developed the hypothesis that, for example, where every island in the Galápagos Archipelago had its own kind of tortoise, these had originated from a single tortoise species and had adapted to life on the different islands in different ways.

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