Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRYING to keep up with Pat Nixon last week, the Washington bureau's Burt Meyers reflected that the wife of the 36th Vice President was certainly the fastest-moving second lady. Doing his homework for this week's cover story, Correspondent Meyers discovered some interesting facts about Pat Nixon's predecessors...
...many respects, ABIGAIL FILLMORE most resembled Pat Nixon. A Baptist preacher's daughter, she was supporting herself at 16 as a schoolteacher, married one of her pupils, a hulking country lad named Millard Fillmore. Abigail continued to teach, vigorously promoted her husband's political career. As the wife of a young Congressman, she was invited to make a public speech-a daring innovation in 1840. Like Pat Nixon, she declined...
...SAFE UNTIL HE IS DEAD, read one. DON'T BE SWAYED BY ALL THE BLEEDING HEARTS, declared another. Then Poole picked up another telegram, read it and reached for the phone. A few minutes later, he carried the wire into the executive mansion and showed it to Governor "Pat" Brown. It was signed by Roy Rubottom Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and it read...
...Pat Brown, who in hours-long solitude had been agonizing over the Chessman case, Rubottom's wire came as from "the hand of God." The Governor quickly got on the direct phone line to San Quentin Prison on San Francisco Bay, talked to Warden Fred Dickson. Said the warden: "I am at the cell with the condemned man." Ordered Governor Brown: "Well, you can send him back upstairs. I am granting him a 60-day reprieve." In his "holding cell," only 15 paces and ten hours from death in the gas chamber, hawk-nosed Convict Caryl Whittier Chessman...
...Journey to the Center of the Earth (from Jules Verne's novel) follows James Mason as he descends into an extinct volcano in Iceland, spends almost a year underground with such companions as Plucky Youth Pat Boone and Beautiful Widow Arlene Dahl, is coughed back up through the crater of Mount Stromboli. A grandly entertaining spoof...