Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 135

BEHIND THE SCENES Enough horses for Queen Elizabeth II. Abbie Hoffman takes a job. THEATER DISTRICT INN. Major hotel news has been made in the theater district by developers Philip Pilevsky and Arthur Cohen. They've just made a $30 million deal for the Century Paramount Hotel on West 46th.

Pilevsky is a partner in Morgans on Madison and 37th, and is also a partner in Tudor City. Cohen was responsible for Olympic Tower and is also involved in redevelopment of the old Madison Square Garden site between Eighth and Ninth and 49th and 50th. Pilevsky and Cohen not only plan to give an extensive facelift to the Century Paramount, a 610-room transient hotel built in 1928, but they also want to renovate the hotel's ground floor. HIT BY AMNESIA. One of the most powerful men on Broadway, Bernard Jacobs, the president of the Shubert Organization, suffered through a recent bout of transient global amnesia.

According to the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, transient global amnesia (TGA) can occur in adults of any age, especially men. When attacks of TGA, which can last from six to 24 hours, strike, "the loss of recent memory is severe, and disorientation and confusion lasts minutes or hours. Nevertheless, recovery is generally complete, with few recurrences. Theater sources told us that Jacobs, 69, considered the business brains of the Shuberts and the one responsible for most of the organization's contract negotiations, was first hit by TGA more than two weeks ago, right before the May 14th London opening of "Chess," the Tim Rice musical the Shuberts plan to bring here in 1987. According to our sources, the ailment struck quickly and unexpectedly, leaving Jacobs in a confused state.

Jacobs attended the "Chess" opening and spent about two weeks in England. While Jacobs was ill, we're told, his duties were assumed by his partner, Gerald Schoenfeld, 61, chairman of the board of the Shubert Organization. When we called the Shubert offices yesterday, Schoenfeld wouldn't talk about the amnesia, explaining that he didn't want "to discuss someone else's medical condition." Jacobs wouldn't take our phone calls, but his secretary confirmed that he had suffered from transient global amnesia. "It's fine now," she said. "He's recovered.

He's in a meeting so he can't talk." NAY MORE. Even nag lover Queen Elizabeth 11, who just completed a horsey five-day trip to Kentucky, can reach a point of pigout. As a press aide to the crowned head put it: "She's seen a lot of horses, and any more would have been enough to have given even the queen horse YIPPIE! ABBIE LANDS A JOB. His mother will be so proud! Abbie Hoffman, 49, has finally found a job his first stab at regular employment. Starting this fall, Abbie will host a weekly, two-hour late-night radio show on WBAI-FM.

Live from the Village Gate, Abbie's "cabaret style" program will feature both music and talk. "It'll be like Garrison Keillor," said Abbie, referring to the creator of "Prairie Home Companion" on National Public Radio. "It'll be sort of an urban home companion." As far as the former fugitive can recollect, the airwaves gig "will be the first job I've ever had in my life." Not that the ever-radical Abbie has been idle. In fact, he's very busy this very week, organizing Thursday's Sixties Ball at the Saint. The benefit for, appropriately, noncommercial WBAI, will feature such "60s survivors" as Country Joe McDonald and Buffy St.

Marie. -Ben Kubasik, Susan Mulcahy and Anthony Scaduto INSIDE Ann Landers 21 Dixon 25 Arts 7 Kidsday 24 Books 9 Movie Times 16 Bridge 23 Pets 21 Calendar 18 Radio 13 Comics 25 Solomon 21 Crossword 26 Television 11 Cryptoquote 23 Weather 28 Dear Abby 23 Wordy Gurdy 26 UNCIVIL LI LIBERTIES OU MIGHT as well as know that the increasing use of psychological testing in hiring has me worried. You probably think that what I'm worried about is some profound issue of public policy the potential threat to employee privacy, maybe, or the possibility of civil liberties being eroded. It's nothing like that. What worries me about these tests is the realization that I couldn't pass one.

You might as well know that I can't draw hands. There! I've said it! It's something I've been keeping inside of me for years. I can hear you saying, "What's the big deal?" That's easy for you to say. You probably can draw hands. I think I better start from the beginning.

I have to go back to the days when I was in college. I know that when people start talking about things that they've kept inside them for a long time they're supposed to go back to their infancy, but, unfortunately, I've never been able to remember my I infancy. In fact, I can remember hardly anything that happened before I school. gradu- As long as we're talking about it, here's something else you might as well know: Today I discovered that I couldn't remember where I had hidden the good brandy last week in the course of preparing for a visit from my sweet old Uncle Herman. I wouldn't admit that on a psychological test, of course.

I wouldn't admit that I hid the good brandy from my sweet old Uncle Herman employee shows indications of devious and I wouldn't CALVIN On the top, TRILLIN there was a single instruction: "Draw a I froze I could see the test-analyzers sitting around making fun of my drawing. admit that I couldn't remember where I hid it employee shows signs of extreme You might as well know that I'd fail anyway: I can't draw hands. While I was in college, I had a chance to get a summer job in an airconditioned office, but it required completing a psychological test that had to be sent in with the application. Until the hands-drawing came up, I was doing pretty well. The first question, as I remember it, was something like this: If you found out that a fellow worker who had use of a company car was making a six-block detour every day to take his little girl to nursery school, would you: 1) Pretend you hadn't found out? 2) Ask him if he would mind picking up a pack of cigarettes for you on the way back? 3) Upbraid him for abusing the trust of his employers, turn him in immediately to the appropriate manager, and possibly beat him about the head and shoulders with a riding crop? I know what to say.

They could count on me. There were a few more like that. I was feeling pretty confident. Then I turned the page. I came upon a page that was nearly blank.

On the top, there was a single instruction: "Draw a man." I froze. Just after the instruction, within parentheses, it said that skill in drawing was not relevant; I knew that to be a simple lie. I could see the test-analyzers sitting around making fun of my drawing: "Hey, Harry, will you get a load of this one? Is that the guy's head or is he about to get hit by a basketball or what?" Still, the alternative to this job was a job as a construction laborer in Kansas City. So I practiced drawing a man. As it happened, I've always been able to draw a man better than I'm able to draw most things, although I'll admit that while I was practicing, a roommate who happened to glance at my desk asked why I was doing a picture of a picnic table.

Finally, I managed to draw what I thought was a pretty good picture of a man, except for one problem: I couldn't draw the hands. I solved that problem in the usual way: I drew a picture of a man with his hands in his pockets. Just from having taken Introductory Psychology 201, I could see what was going to happen when the analyzer saw my man: "Prospective employee is trying to look cool. Prospective employee apparently has guilt complex that causes him to hide what he believes to be dirt on his hands. Prospective employee is a klutz." I tried putting his hands behind his back.

That made it look as if he had just had both arms broken by a mob enforcer. I tried covering his hands with mittens. But I couldn't do an overcoat, so he looked like a man who, for some reason, wore mittens indoors. employee has a morbid fear of cold Finally, I decided to take the construction job in Kansas City. It actually turned out to be all right.

Working outdoors in Kansas City was pretty hot, of course, but I didn't have to draw any hands all summer. 71.