Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specialist and latter-day TV raconteur. "She was a quiet girl, and pretty. And it always used to disturb me how tired her face was in repose. There seemed to have been plenty of reason for it. As I recall it, if you went into the cafeteria, there was Pat Ryan at the serving counter. An hour later, if you went to the library, there was Pat Ryan, checking out books. And if you came back to the campus that evening, there was Pat Ryan working on some student research program. Yet with it all, she was a good student...
...Seton Hospital, first as a secretary, later as an X-ray and laboratory assistant. The young doctors and interns gave her a merry social life, and she tried to save money for the longed-for education. After two years, the call of college became irresistible, and Pat collected her bus ticket and went back to Los Angeles (by way of Niagara Falls, at no extra charge). Bill and Tom made room for her in their tiny apartment near the University of Southern California. One morning Tom Ryan took Pat to the U.S.C. job-placement office. "This is my kid sister...
With all her campus activities, plus keeping house for her brothers, Pat still had energy left over to fill extra roles in motion pictures (she had a $25-a-day walk-on part in Becky Sharp) and to work as a part-time saleslady at Bullock's-Wilshire, a fashionable department store. She graduated with honors and a high school teacher's certificate. Finding a job was no problem: her first assignment, at $187 a month, was teaching commercial subjects at Whittier Union High School in the quiet, Quaker suburb of Whittier. Some of her colleagues foresaw trouble...
...young lawyer, Dick Nixon. They were cast in the leading roles of The Dark Tower, and Lawyer Nixon immediately began a dogged, offstage courtship. He learned to dance, nearly fractured his skull trying to ice skate-and according to an oft-told story, he even drove Pat to dates with other young men in Los Angeles, waiting around to drive her home...
...Politics. During the war, Nixon was a naval officer, and Pat dutifully followed him from billet to domestic billet-Washington, Ottumwa, Iowa, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore, methodically getting a new job, buying secondhand furniture and setting up house in each post. While he was on duty in the Pacific, she lived in a boardinghouse in San Francisco, worked as an OPA economist. At war's end, Lieut. Commander Nixon and his lady were stationed in Baltimore. Pat was pregnant, and the future was uncertain. Then a now-famous telegram came from Whittier: a "Committee of One Hundred" active Republicans...