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...Religion has been doing a good selling job," said E. N. Jacquin of the Champaign (Ill.) News-Gazette. "Religious promotion efforts, plus the perplexities of modern life" were the causes, said M. H. Williams of the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram-Gazette. David Patten of the Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin answered: "Religious people seem to want everyone else to get religion...
...faced C. Thomas Patten was an evangelist in fancy maroon shirts. He wore cowboy hats with brims that were wide, and cowboy boots with toes that were narrow, and his congregation couldn't refuse him a thing. When he asked for money, they gave him money-for a choir loft that went up & down like the stage at Radio City Music Hall, for an electric Escalator that lifted worshipers up to a raised altar. These wonders never appeared, but in seven years in Oakland, Calif. Tom acquired nine cars, 46 suits, 200 pairs of boots and a cabin cruiser...
...four months an Oakland jury listened as disillusioned disciples told of C. (for Cash, he explains unabashedly) Thomas Patten's talents. There was a caterer who said he had given Patten $10,000 ("I never had but a few dollars to give my wife''), a $35-a-week charwoman and her husband who had handed over...
...shot of morphine from a hovering nurse. Last week an ambulance rushed Tom, resplendent in yellow silk pajamas, from an Oakland hospital to the courtroom to hear the jury's verdict. It found him guilty of stealing $14,750 from his followers (maximum penalty: 50 years). Said Tom Patten, flat on his back but still cocky: "There'll be a battle royal before they get me behind bars...
Such displays of wealth were enough to breed doubt in some of the faithful. A few followers went to the district attorney. Last week Tom Patten, a strapping, 218-lb. six-footer with a toothy grin and a fat face, was on trial in Alameda County Courthouse charged with mulcting some of his flock of $20,000. One of the shaken believers, an unemployed food caterer named George Lewis, told the jury how he had parted with more than $10,000. "I'd go to a Patten meeting with my full pay ($125 a week) and come out with...