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Mr. Payne, who is a mediumsized chubby man, has the appearance and manner of speech of what is known as a typical "New Yorker" and wears a moustache and a goatee, seemed about as pleased at the introduction as if he had been dropped from the top of the Empire State Building. Payne, nevertheless, proved well able to take care of himself and lost no time going back at the toastmaster.
"I am only prevented from responding properly by the fact that I am limited to a tomato juice diet", Mr. Payne said, "while Bill Hard is drinking cocktails. However, I may have some¬ thing to say when the tomato juice ban is lifted. I was surprised to be called upon to speak because when I heard that Hard was to be the toastmaster, I assumed that, as usual, he would do all the talking. "
Mr. Payne became so realistic in what appeared to be sarcastic remarks about Mr. Hard that many began to believe that he had taken personal offense at Hard's remarks. What most of those present did not know was that the two men were old friends and their performance was only part of the show.
Hampson G-ary, who has the polish which only the diplo¬ matic service can give, and who would be rated a first class after dinner speaker in any company, fared considerably better than his colleague. Nevertheless he remarked, "I never had an introduction quite like that before and don't know yet whether you are serious or whether you are kidding me."
Introducing Commissioner Irvin Stewart, late of the Treaty Division of the State Department, Mr. Hard said, "Dr. Stewart has been a technical advisor at all of the recent inter¬ national radio conference. A technical advisor at an inter¬ national conference, I might explain, is a "man whose advice nobody takes."
Dr. Stewart, who is a finished product of the State Department, is soft-spoken and quite youthful in appearance, and was on his feet less than a minute. Commissioner Case, tall, with iron-gray moustache and easily the most distinguished in appearance of any of the new group deftly applied the subject of Communications to telling the diners what Margot Asquith, wife of the former British premier, told Jean Harlow in Hollywood. Whether the former Governor of Rhode Island picked this up by shortwave or permanent wave, he didn't say.
Mr. Hard, introducing Commissioner Walker, small in stature, rather pale and who appears to be regarded as the deep stuff man and the unknown quantity of the new crowd, saidi
"As you well understand, there are no politics in connection with the Communications Commission, so since Mr.
Walker is to be the head of a division the telephone division I need hardly tell you that he is a Democrat., "
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