August 25, 1999

12 giant billboards are installed in central London, result of collaborations between some of Britain's leading artists and Kosovar children in refugee camps in Albania and Macedonia; exhibition is sponsored by Unicef in celebration of World Children's Day on Aug 30; Atlantic Theater Co to pay tribute to its founders 15 years ago, David Mamet and William H Macy, with an all-Mamet season; Mamet photo; newly revised edition of Pelican Shakespeare series to begin appearing in stores next month; more than dozen giants of jazz to perform in 10-hour nonstop jam at Birdland in Manhattan to benefit WBGO,l New York radio station devoted to preservation of jazz; photo of pianist Kenny Barron (M)

Victims Services, nonprofit agency that operates domestic-violence hot line 24 hours a day, says calls have jumped 14 percent since it began running new advertisement in subways in June; advertisements are latest in annual series of public information efforts started by Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani in 1994; current ad is first to take up entire length of subway car; was created by Young & Rubicam New York, which donated its services; ad space was paid for by Starr Foundation; photos (M)

New York State Atty Gen Eliot L Spitzer files suit against Cipriani restaurant family, accusing it of sexual discrimination by hiring only men as waiters, barring women from jobs that can pay as much as $90,000 a year; says suit is part of larger investigation of sex discrimination in industry and effort to overturn longstanding practices that prevent women from obtaining lucrative jobs in many of city's most expensive restaurants (M)

Bank Inquiry Intensifying The money laundering investigation at the Bank of New York is intensifying as American and British authorities have stepped up their interest, the authorities said. PAGE A4

Reports by Gov George E Pataki's two political action committees, one in New York and another in Virginia, show that they used vagaries of Virginia and Federal election law to put corporate money and large individual donations behind Pataki's brief hopes for Presidential nomination (M)