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...Bell System. At a hearing called by the State Public Service Commission to investigate complaints of poor service, witnesses railed about everything from Manhattan's grossly overloaded Plaza 8 exchange to pay telephones in which the only working parts seem to be the coin slots. William Payson, president of the advertising firm of Avery, Hand & Co., said that two of his company's lines were apparently disconnected by mistake and were still not repaired after a month despite daily calls to telephone company offices. To call attention to its plight, his company bought $5,900 worth of space...
MINNESOTA THEATER COMPANY, Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis (through Sept. 17). The company will include Julius Caesar in its repertory, giving Director Edward Payson Call a chance to transform Shakespeare's play into a universal parable of the perils of leadership, as Rome becomes a metaphor for an existing political and climatic hot spot (possibly Latin America). Robert Pastene plays Caesar, Allen Hamilton betrays him, and Charles Keating buries...
...stores to stop advertising guns and "similar toys of violence." Department stores throughout the U.S. are "de-emphasizing" toy guns, which usually means that they are not placing new orders. In Manhattan, Bloomingdale's and Stern Bros, have even taken their exsting stock off the shelves. Payson Sawyer, 35, one of Maine's largest toy distributors and leader of a citizens' group called "Toy Disarmament," has earmarked his entire stock of toy guns for a big bonfire this month. "Everybody talks about disarming the world, but we believe a practical step is to start at home," says...
...sobriquets as T.V. Commercial, Draft Card, Call Me Prince, Sir Beau and Forward Pass. The horse that captured the Belmont Stakes was Greentree Stable's Stage Door Johnny, whose name reflected rare wit and imagination on the part of its owners-John Hay Whitney and his sister Joan Payson. Stage Door Johnny's sire is Prince John, his dam Peroxide Blonde...
...days later, the other half of Greentree Stable had some sharp words about the treatment of four-footed athletes by two-footed businessmen. Speaking at the Thoroughbred Club of America, Mrs. Payson's brother, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 59, told horsemen that with the "monumental exception" of Kelso (see SPORT), thoroughbred "mediocrity has been so spectacular that it can no longer be ignored." Why so? Simply because commercialism is taking over the sport, said Jock. "The rewards, whether for winning or for losing, offer almost irresistible temptations to race a two-year-old more than is good...