Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidacy, the convention was "going to have a little voting tomorrow, and regardless of how the voting comes out, I'm going to be pitching for you." (Loud cheers.) In any event, Nixon concluded, "I have been cussed and discussed-but everybody pretty well agrees that Pat's all right." (Pat Nixon blushed prettily, delegates rose cheering, headed happily for the fire-escape exit...
...forced a cancellation. To Nixon's suite came a call from his brother Don: their father, Frank Nixon, 77, had suffered a partially ruptured abdominal artery, and seemed near death. The light went out of Dick Nixon's triumphal march to nomination: before 8 a.m., he and Pat were on the way home...
...Pat Boone, 22, was just another hillbilly singer from Nashville 18 months ago. Today, nobody who hears him in person ever hears the first or last few robust notes-they are always drowned in squeals of bobby-sox delight. Boone simply opened his mouth and sang when he was ten. "People just got to asking me to sing, and I sang," he says. Pat studied dramatics and speech at North Texas State College, finally landed a few TV spots, then got the call from Dot records. Such tunes as Two Hearts, Ain't That a Shame and, most recently...
Today, as a regular on Arthur Godfrey Time and a practically permanent fixture on bestseller charts, Pat Boone is still not convinced that his success is real or permanent. He is a high-mark senior at Columbia University, is still planning to become a teacher. Last week, on a swing through the Midwest, he wound up eleven shows in 14 days. A Baton Rouge disk jockey, determined to get Boone to town by some means or other, climbed a pole and announced his determination to sit there until the hero arrived. "He's gonna sit there until I come...
...except for one extraordinary picture. Perhaps the first commissioned portrait of a workingman, the painting (opposite) is on view this Labor Day week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Actually, credit for the picture should go not so much to Painter Neagle as to his subject: Blacksmith Pat Lyon...