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...third and fourth floors of Patton Hall, on the campus of Princeton University, four studies, eight bedrooms and a bathroom had been combined into an undergraduate's idea of a comfortable duplex apartment. There, in the days when Harding was in the White House and F. Scott Fitzgerald chased his gin-filled grail, roomed nine Princetonians (Class of '22). One of them was a fellow always in a bustle about various campus activities (Daily Princetonian, Senior Council, etc.), and who had, in the words of one of his roommates, "a short, quick walk and a funny nose...
...next nine years Louis Patton just stayed home, pursuing solitude on the second floor of his family's white frame house in West Hartford. He passed the time happily, studying anatomy, doing clay sculptures and carving tiny, intricate heads on pencil ends. His doting mother, Constance Patton, stood guard over the boy's privacy, saw to it that he paid no attention to his father, who wanted Louis to lead a more normal life...
...those nine years Louis left the house long enough to make an inconspicuous trip to a local barbershop. (In between visits to the barber, Louis trimmed his own hair with a cutting comb.) One thing he didn't bother to do, however, was register for the draft. Constance Patton, an ardent believer in astrology, never felt the stars were quite right for this step...
Over the years most people forgot that Louis had ever existed, but last week an FBI agent called at the Patton home. (The family later decided that Louis must have been betrayed by a sister's estranged husband.) Mr. Patton, who answered the door, called to Louis to come downstairs. But it was Mrs. Patton, not Louis, who came down. While she ordered the agent out of the house, Louis slipped down the back stairs and got clean away. As soon as she could, Mrs. Patton joined her son and hustled him off to New York. There...
...week's end Louis Patton had been freed on $2,000 bail, was back home in West Hartford, where his mother once again was guarding his privacy. On Aug. 19 Louis Patton will have to come out of seclusion to face charges of draft evasion. No charges at all have been placed against his mother...