- A scheduled TV appearance by the Ramblers was canceled after Paley refused to sign a statement attesting that he had never been a communist. He had never been a member of the Communist party, but he felt it was none of the network's business either way.
- He received a master's degree in mathematics from Yale in 1953. He taught math at the University of Maryland, the University of Connecticut, and Skidmore College.
- He was a guitar and banjo virtuoso, and a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, a group that was active in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. He became interested in folk music at summer camps, and learned to play guitar in his teens.
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