A jolly giant comes to CBS
Just two weeks after sacking his last heir apparent, CBS's founder and chairman, William Paley, has found yet another the fifth CBS president in ten years and the third in less than four years. Paley's newest anointed: Thomas H. Wyman, vice chairman of Pillsbury Co. The new chief executive was wooed by a deal that sounded like the signing of a major league pitching star a $1 million bonus plus a three-year contract for $800,000 annually.
Wyman, 50, has spent a nervous career waiting for several top...
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