The Washington times., 1928-12-15
Society Woman Dickers for Purchase
OF Famous Liberal Organ, The Nation
Mrs. Elmer Schlesinger,
Well-KnoWn as a Writ
er, Aspires to Edit a
Magazine

The Nation, famous organ
of the liberals, may pass into
the hands of a society wo-
man well-knoWn in Wash
ington, Chicago, New York
and beyond the seas.
This is the rather startling
fact which has developed
from an effort to run down
q rumor that Mrs. Elmer
Schlesinger, who writes un-
der the name Of Eleanor
Gizycka, was about to start
3 new magazine. Mrs.
Schlesinger has been dicker-
ing-aid is said to be still
dickeringfor the purchase
of the weekly from the
group, headed by Oswald
Garrison Willard, which
owns it.
Long a Liberal
It would be by no means out
of character for this daughter
Of the late Robert w. Patterson,
one of the founders OF the
Chicago Tribune, TO be asso-
ciated with q publication dedl-
Gated to advanced" thought,
for she has long ago thrown IN
her lot with the liberals. In
Washington she has been espe-
cially friendly with the little
group of mavericks on Capitol
Hill. She was one of the first
to take up" Senator Henrik
Shipstead when he came to
town to speak for Minnesota's
brand Of liberalism; and Senator
and Mrs. Burton X. Wheeler, of
Montana, are among her inti-
mates.
Annual Visit
Indeed, it was when Mrs.
Schlesinger attended the weekly
Thursday evening dinner at the
Women's National Democratic
Club with Mrs. Wheeler-the
speaker Of the evening g-that her
friends first learned that she had
returned to Washington. Since
her marriage to Mr.. Schlesinger,
the former Eleanor Patterson
Gizycka. has spent most of her
time in New York, but she an
nual1y opens her Washington
house fera two or three months
during the season.
This is the big mansion In
Dupont Circle. which was long
the home of her parents and
which served as the temporary
White House for the President and
Mrs. Coolidge while repairs were
being made to the Executive Man.
sion.
Eleanor Patterson was first-mar.
ried to the late Count Joseph
j Gizycka, owner of vast estates in
what was then Russian Poland.
She left him, taking her small
daughter with her. and, when the
father kidnapped the child, became
the heroine, of cause celebre.
The case ended with the return
Of little Felicia Gizycka to her
mother, but only after President
Taft had made an appeal to the
Gar of all the Russians.
Miss Felicia Gizycka afterward
married Drew Pearson a young
newspaper man, from whom she
was divorced last summer. In the
new issue of the Social Reg.
lister, it will be remembered, she
appears again as Felicia Gizycka,
having, discarded the Pearson and
resumed her maiden name.
Mrs. Schlesinger comes of a
family associated in all it's
branches with the newspaper game.
She has done some journalistic
work herself, has written a num-
ber of short stories and has two
novels, "Glass Houses" and
"Fall Flight" to her credit.
The Vice President-eIect. Senator
Charles Curtis, and his sister,
Mrs. Edward E. Gam, are guests
in whose honor Mrs. Emerson
Howe viii entertain at dinner this
evening.
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The Postmaster General and
Mrs. Harry S. New will have as
their guests over the weekend
Col. and Mrs. A. M. Whaley, who
will arrive today. Colonel and
Mrs. Whaley, who have been sta
TONED at Carlisle, Pa, for three
months, are on their way to Fort
Sheridan, III.