Word: patton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roseland from El Paso, Tex., came Claire Patton. She had been married when she was very young and divorced before she was very much older. At Roseland a girl can make (with good fortune and tips) about $60 weekly. So Hostess Patton earned easily a living wage, devoted leisure hours to improving herself with courses at Columbia University. She used to check her textbooks at Roseland's desk before she prepared to extend Roseland hospitality to all and sundry...
...three dances. And men who wished to sit out dances with their hostesses could accompany them to a (chaperoned) room off the ballroom, there sit for one hour for $2.80 (of which the girl collected $2). Many a $2.80 spent Mr. Graustein after he had met Hostess Patton. It was in this room, indeed, that the Prince came to Cinderella...
Simple was the rest of the story-only the happy ending remained. For, much as Hostess Patton may at first have questioned the story of riches and position to which this middle-aged (Mr. Graustein is 43) suitor referred, she found that the unbelievable was true, that the incredible was a fact. One day (March 14),* in El Paso Tycoon Graustein and Hostess Patton were married, and from Roseland's hostesses the fairest flower is gone...
Peculiar was the newspaper treatment of the Graustein-Patton marriage. Here was surely a saga of romance without a trace of scandal. Here was modern Manhattan's version of the Prince and Cinderella-a syncopated setting for an ageless theme. Yet the story was announced (two months after the wedding) in Zit's Weekly, theatrical trade-paper. Later the tabloids carried it. But solid, standard papers-Times, World, Herald Tribune, Sim, Post-ignored the week's-and one of the year's-greatest human interest story...
Resigned. Dr. Ozora Stearns Davis, 62, of Chicago. Congregational Minister; as president of the Chicago Theological Seminary; as Moderator of the National Congregational Council. Reason: serious illness.* Dr. Carl Safiord Patton, homiletic and practical theology professor, was elected to succeed Dr. Davis to the presidency. But he declined, preferring instead the pastorate of Los Angeles' First Congregational Church, whereupon his 1,750 new parishioners assembled, cheered in unison, voted a new million-dollar church...