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Wherever Louis Wiley went he made acquaintances by the score, friends by the dozen. He was passionately proud of his acquaintance with celebrities. Whoever saw him once, never forgot him. His ingratiating personality made a sharp first impression; his compelling personality made the impression permanent. Like many a self-made man, he paid his underlings meagrely, but his private philanthropies were supposed to be prodigious.
Louis Wiley never married. He lived in quiet luxury in a huge Park Avenue apartment, attended by men servants. He got his greatest fun out of dancing. Asked what, aside from the Times he liked best, he once replied: "Beautiful and attractive young women."