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Chicago Tribune. "Dr. Dorsey Isn’t A Bohemian, He Tells Reporter." Chicago Tribune 5 July 1922: 3.

Editors' notes

This story is included as part of the history of Thomas's dismissal from the University of Chicago in 1918. In a 1968 seminar, Kimball Young asserted that George Dorsey had introduced Thomas to the 'other woman' involved in the story. Although that account made little sense, an alternative version does --- Della Raines was Pearl Granger's sister. In the Associated Press account, they reported that Mrs. Granger had been introduced to Thomas by Miss Raines. George Dorsey had been a colleague of Thomas's in Anthropology at the the University of Chicago. In March 1918, he entered the Naval Reserve, leaving New York for Lisbon. Young's suggestion that Dorsey had "passed on" his mistress to Thomas is inaccurate, but this story links Granger to Thomas at two degrees of separation, and provides a plausible explanation for how a married woman visiting New York develops a relationship with a scholar visiting New York

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DR. DORSEY ISN’T A BOHEMIAN, HE TELLS REPORTER
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Has No Intention of Wedding "Flapper."

New York, July 4 — [Special.] — Dr. George A. Dorsey, world famous ethnologist, won’t marry a "flapper," and isn’t bohemian — "unless living south of Grant’s tomb, and working fifteen or sixteen hours a day" makes him one.

Dr. Dorsey was divorced in Chicago and his wife was reported as saying she divorced him to allow him to write and have a career. Mrs. Dorsey’s attorney added that Dr. Dorsey was living in New you’re a live of "what might be called bohemianism."

Interested in seeing what an ethnologist’s idea of bohemianism might be, a reporter set out to find Dr. Dorsey. The reporter’s sense of ethnology took him to Greenwich Village, where at 8 East 8^th street, Miss Della Raines, art model and movie actress, once lived. She lives there no longer.

His View on Marriage.

Dr. Dorsey had once been reported engaged to Miss Raines, but later wrote to a married daughter that the "only woman I would ever marry is your mother."

Nevertheless the reporter’s sense of ethnology took him to No. 20, the first in a row of house which No. 8 is one, and found the former curator of ethnology at the Chicago Field museum and former member of the faculty of Chicago and Northwestern universities.

"I haven’t seen Miss Raines in four or five years," said Dr. Dorsey. "She was merely and incident which had nothing whatever to do with our divorce, and came and went. No. I didn’t know she once lived in 8^th street.

Likes to Feel He’s Free.

"Mrs Dorsey and I agreed, years ago, that we didn’t track. That is neither to her discredit nor mine. We decided we could not live together, and let it go at that. We have grown children and whether we live together or not makes no particular difference to them.

"I like to feel free to get up and go at fifteen minute’s notice, I might not want to take my wife along — or she might not want to take me — that busts up the show. One finds the going good in one direction, the other in another. I have no use for men of 40 or 50 who want to marry flappers. A man should be a good sport and play the game."

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