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...PRUITTS OF SOUTHAMPTON (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Phyllis Diller as the widowed head of the poor but proud Pruitts of Long Island. The first episode, "Phyllis Goes for Broke," chronicles Uncle Ned's (Reginald Gardiner) efforts to marry Phyllis off to moneyed stuffiness, General Cannon (John McGiver). Gypsy Rose Lee plays a noisy neighbor...
...poked through the haze above Mayfair just after the "elevenses" tea break and just before the lunch break. All work on a Curzon Street building stopped as the construction gang peeled off shirts and spread-eagled across the masonry for a sun tan. On English docks from Liverpool to Southampton, 14-man gangs of stevedores can be found idly following the forklift trucks that replaced them. When a British company proposed to check up on workers who had been out sick more than 25 times a year for three years or more in succession, 500 men indignantly went on strike...
...think they've flipped their lids," said a bystander. The reaction from the train was stronger. "Beatniks," snorted one grande dame as she pushed her way toward her chauffeur-driven limousine. "It's certainly not Southampton," sniffed another. What was happening was a Happening-a combination of artists' ball, carnival, charade, and a Dadaesque version of the games some people play. The Neutron Kid, glowering through his full beard and dark glasses, was none other than Allan Kaprow, 38, the artist who seven years ago gave Happenings their name...
Laughing gas was what it needed, decided most of the Southampton spectators. "This is a lot of nothing with no glue to hold it together," growled one cop. "Not so," Kaprow smiled benignly. "This game is dream work-the kind kids do." But he did not waste time arguing the point with critics. CBS-TV was filming the Happening, and Kaprow had to bustle his motley throng off for the next event...
...Born in Southampton, Ont., of a Scottish father and a mother of English descent, Thomson was a bright but restless student. He left Canada at 18 without finishing high school, headed south of the Canadian border, turned up at the home of an uncle in the Queens borough of New York City. Interested in figures and bookkeeping, he went to Wall Street for a job, was hired by Merrill as a runner at $14 a week. "I remember the salary well," says Thomson, whose present annual income is over $100,000. "I couldn't live...