Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whittier, and got a lot of divorce cases, to whose more explicit details he listened with acute embarrassment. He also taught Sunday school, joined the junior chamber of commerce, and acted in a Little Theater group. In Night of January 16, he played a district attorney opposite pretty Pat Ryan, a California redhead who, like Dick, had worked her way through college and was a teacher at the local high school. They were married in 1940. A month after Pearl Harbor, Nixon went to work for the OPA in Washington. Says he: "In OPA I learned respect for the thousands...
...Dick and Pat fought hard. Short of cash, they lived in a bare little house in Whittier and were beset by a smelly, cannibalistic brood of minks kept by the people next door (says Nixon: "I've never had any use for minks since then, the Truman variety or any other kind"). Against the advice of professional politicians, Nixon took on his opponent in five public debates before audiences largely favorable to Voorhis. Nixon argued against the evil deeds of the New Deal as effectively as he had urged the good works of the praying mantis and the syrphid...
...Nixons live in a spick & span, two-story white brick house at Spring Valley, a Washington suburb. Nixon no longer does the dishes, and is generally bad at fixing things around the house, but (after his strict Navy training) always neatly hangs up his clothes. Pat Nixon is a good and enthusiastic campaigner, and .so is the rest of the family (although Julie has lately taken a dislike to photographers). During Nixon's senatorial campaign, when all the Nixons were on TV, Julie thoughtfully picked her tiny nose in full view of the TV camera. Said her father: "Julie...
...bothered to check the "gossip"? "Certainly," answered City Editor Aggie Underwood, "we phoned two or three local Democratic leaders. They just hummed and said that it was interesting." As to why no other papers in or out of the Hearst chain picked up the item. Editor Underwood had a pat explanation. Said she: "It was a purely local story...
...Pat and Mike. A sprightly comedy in which Katharine Hepburn plays a lady athlete and Spencer Tracy a sports promoter (TIME, June...