Consul Field

At Amsterdam there arrived Miss Pattie Field, 24, of Denver--and her mother--and many trunks. Titled Amsterdamers, the local consular corps, a scurrying squad of pressmen, welcomed her, found her good to look upon, looked. Miss Field looked back, with both a twinkle and a glitter in her bold dark eye.

With gracious feminine evasiveness she parried all efforts of the correspondents to draw her out into some statement that could be revamped as "copy." With incisive, feminine neatness she ordered her trunks unpacked, and though no prying reporter saw, her U. S. friends well knew that there came forth: a Paris wardrobe (all in petite sizes) impeccable to the finest pinpoint; skins of wild Colorado animals (to establish beyond peradventure her origin); riding habits (she is an expert horsewoman) ; perhaps a ravishing orange skin-tight swimming costume (it was seen many a time last summer in the tank of the Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D. C.).

With resolute feminine determination, she settled down at her desk in the American Consulate at Amsterdam, the first feminine U. S. vice-consul, the second* woman ever to be admitted to the U. S. Diplomatic and Consular Service. Diplomats lauded this personable novice for her wise reticence. They recalled a statement which she had made, in her alarmingly deep voice, at the time of her oppointment (TIME, Sept. 14): "There are some things in this career that women can do better than a man."

*The first: Miss Lucille Archerson, 31, assigned as Third Secretary to the U. S. Legation at Bern, Switzerland.