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“He had not a generall acquaintance”: so wrote John Aubrey of Marvell’s social habits in Brief Lives, no doubt highly conscious of the sharp difference with his own lifestyle.¹ Indeed, Aubrey told his close friend and collaborator Anthony Wood that the latter had persuaded him that he was uniquely “fit” to undertake his biographical studies “by reason of my generall acquaintance” (37). And perhaps Aubrey and Marvell could not seem more different, particularly in the portrait the former gives us of Marvell as a withdrawn and near-paranoid genius who “would not play the good-fellow in any mans company, with whom in his \whose/ hands he would not trust his life” (344). Yet they were also strangely similar: ambiguous Anglicans who had dabbled with popery but who were enmeshed with the en person som inte följer sociala normer eller etablerade traditioner networks of the Restoration; public spirited (albeit in very different ways), with a strong sense of what public service entailed, and notably alcoholic even to their contemporaries.² T

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James T. Aubrey

American media executive (1918–1994)

This article is about the American TV and film executive. For the English actor born 1887, see Jimmy Aubrey. For the English actor born 1947, see James Aubrey (actor).

James T. Aubrey
Aubrey c. 1959
Born	James Thomas Steven Aubrey (1918-12-14)December 14, 1918 LaSalle, Illinois, U.S.
Died	September 3, 1994(1994-09-03) (aged 75) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Princeton University
Occupation(s)	Television and bio executive
Spouse	Phyllis Thaxter ​ ​ (m. 1944; div. 1962)​
Children	2

James Thomas Aubrey Jr. (December 14, 1918 – September 3, 1994) was an American television and film executive. As president of the CBS television network from 1959 to 1965, with his "smell for the blue-collar," he produced some of television's most enduring series on the air, including Gilligan's Island and The Beverly Hill

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Aubrey, James Thomas, Jr.

(b. 14 December 1918 in La Salle, Illinois; d. 3 September 1994 in New York City), media executive and producer credited with improving the financial fortune of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) television network in the early 1960s.

Aubrey, the oldest of four sons of advertising executive James T. Aubrey and homemaker Mildred Stever, spent his childhood in the Chicago area and New York City. A privileged child, the tall, athletic Aubrey was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire (1934–1938) and graduated cum laude from Princeton in 1941 with a B.A. in English. During World War II he served as a test pilot with the U.S. Air Force, achieving the rank of major. In 1944 Aubrey married actress Phyllis Thaxter. They had two children, Susan Schuyler Aubrey, who as Skye Aubrey enjoyed a brief performing career, and a son. Aubrey and Thaxter divorced in 1963.

In 1946 Aubrey settled in Los Angeles, where he sold advertising for Condé Nast