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Martha Blair's copy for next day was already written. Meanwhile, volatile Cissie Patterson had suffered a change of heart: the column stood. But Martha Blair (who is also the wife of the New York Times's Arthur Krock) had had enough of Cissie's whims...
Though she had counted on the $100 a week she got from the Times-Herald to help put her two sons (by a previous marriage) through college, Martha Blair handed in her resignation. Cissie Patterson accepted...
Martha called up Eugene Meyer (no friend of Cissie Patterson), who owns the Washington Post. Gleefully the Post printed on its own society page: "Mrs. Charlotte B. Nast, Ian Wilson-Young to wed - Mrs. Arthur Krock receives word of betrothal in London...
...couple of days Martha Blair handed free stories to the Post. Then, having shown Cissie Patterson who could get the news, she subsided. To her friends she said: "Now that I've got all the vixen out of me, I'm through." Mrs. Patterson's friends said that Cissie was amused...
...charming Mrs. Krock and the intense Mrs. Patterson had met socially several times last week since they parted professionally. There were no eruptions. Some of her friends thought they heard Mrs. Krock say one evening: "Well, thank God, I've still got Arthur Krock...