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I had Lew make up invitations--mockups of a mailing piece that we would use, inviting people to come for a reception in the cafeteria space. I even found someplace on Third Avenue, or maybe Second Avenue, a couple of very beautiful old clocks that we could use in the space. I don't know what it's like today. I wouldn't want anybody to see it, because it was so unusual at the time.

Anyway, I did a mockup of the thing, and the invitation was “The Chairman and the President of CBS invite you to a reception in the new building, done by Eero Saarinen” and so forth. I saw it as having the character of an opening, and I thought I was a smart kid. I wasn't any kid, but I thought it was the right thing. I showed it to Paley, and he said it would be an insult to his friends in the art world to have them come.

Why?

Never said. So I said: “Okay, we'll just go ahead and forget about it.” And we never produced it. Never went in that direction at all. And I left very shortly thereafter to go to Vietnam, and so as far as I was concerned that was a break. I don't know to this day whether Paley ever went into that space or not.

The Dorfsman wall has been removed and permanently installed at Cooper Union, where he was a student. I just don't know what they've done with that space, but whatever they've done with it, I'm sure it's crappy.

But when I came back from Vietnam--and I was gone maybe a total of two weeks--a week over there and other time getting there and getting back. Paley never asked me what I