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...Bible of Pennsylvania Republicanism" when the Elverson family bought it 45 years ago. Old James Elverson and his son James Jr. successively published it until the son died in 1929. His widow followed him several months later, and control of the Inquirer passed to his sister, Eleanore Elverson Paten...
...Patenôtre was born 64 years ago in Philadelphia. When she was 24 she met Jules Patenôtre, the French Ambassador, at a Washington party, was married to him by the late Cardinal Gibbons. A son, Raymond, was born at Atlantic City in 1900. Soon thereafter the Patenôtres went abroad to live. Raymond grew up a Frenchman. Mme Patenôtre who has visited the U. S. about ten times in 30 years, had little interest in the Philadelphia Inquirer when her brother's will dumped it into her lap. Gladly she sold...
...Public Ledger (TIME, April 16). Last week he abandoned ship. The Inquirer, combined with what is left of the Public Ledger, will be taken in tow again by the Elversons as salvage for the notes which profits evidently did not pay off. On his way from France was Raymond Patenôtre, to take possession on behalf of his mother...
...fire on the speedboat of U.S.-born Raymond Patenôtre, French UnderSecretary of National Economy, forced him and 15 guests to pump fire extinguishers frantically, then leap into the Mediterranean. Last to leap was 68-year-old Lady Mendl (onetime Elsie de Wolfe, famed interior decorator), who obeyed only when her husband cried: "Damn it all, jump!" Towed 150 yards to shore by the Marquis d'Alemeida, said she: "That 10 minutes' work with the fire extinguishers was the only manual labor most of the men had done in their lives...
...York, England, the dean and the chapter of York Minster waited to receive a local goldsmith. The smith appeared, bearing with him a paten and chalice whose magnificence made the clergy cry out with surprise. The paten (saucer), shown to the public for the first time last week, was of silver and gilt, charmingly wrought; the chalice (goblet) bore a 32 carat diamond, gift, stated the smith, of a Mrs. Howe, lately deceased. Years ago she had ridden horses bareback in a U. S. circus. And, like many another circus performer, she possessed a piety which the manner...