George Austin Hay says goodbye after 55 years of federal service and acting gigs By Dan Zak
The only thing longer than Hay's federal career is his acting career, which has run from Broadway stages to background work in major motion pictures. He played opposite Helen Hayes in the short-lived revival of "What Every Woman Knows" at City Center in 1954 and 1955. After that he was a jury member and then a court reporter in the original two-year run of "Inherit the Wind" at the National Theatre (now the Nederland…