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Vincent J. Unger Payson, Ariz...
...slides with a slippery slope: some ten miles away, another soggy mountainside began to roll downhill, threatening to divert a river through the town of Payson (pop. 5,000) before it firmed up. In Northern California earlier this month, a mud slide in the Sierras buried a 1,000-ft. stretch of Highway 50 between Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe under 60,000 cu. yds. of mud, rocks and debris. Highway crews, unable to remove the rubble, are now paving over the roadblock, which runs 30 to 40 ft. high in some spots. Mail in the area is temporarily being...
...million complex is an unusually solid marriage between architect and artist. Theater Consultant Gordon Davidson, director of Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, worked on details for six years with Architects Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo. The result of all that planning, says Artistic Director Edward Payson Call, can only be compared to a wonderful playpen for directors, who can use dramatic concepts impossible in many other places...
...between, there have been two other mountings of The Tempest--in 1960 and 1971. The version that Edward Payson Call directed in 1971 was largely a failure, but William Ball had managed in 1960 to turn out the finest Tempest I have ever seen, thanks to a strong cast headed by Morris Carnovsky's Prospero, Clayton Corzatte's Ariel, and Earle Hyman's Caliban. And this despite the ill-advised total omission of the opening storm scene...
MARRIED. Charles Shipman Payson, 79, retired industrialist and majority stockholder of the New York Mets; and Virginia Kraft, 47, associate editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, who met him in 1962 when she wrote an article about his Florida hunting lodge; both for the second time; in Falmouth Foreside, Me. Payson's first wife, Heiress Joan Whitney Payson, died...