· Pare B.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY.
VEMBER ··
1958
· CHINA MAIL EXCLUSIVE
TWO OF
FABULOUS ROCKEFELLER DYNASTY TODAY”
SHY JOHN III WANTS TO SERVE
"I
FEEL that I should be doing some practical service," John Rockefeller 3rd once told a friend. This instalment of "The Fabulous Rockefeller Dynasty-Today" tells how the oldest of the five Rockefeller brothers fulfilled this ambition. It describes. the early childhood influences that shaped John Rockefeller into the man he is today. It reveals his attitude toward his family's great wealth. It tells how he used his shy personality to perform wonders in educational, cultural and philanthropic endeavours, WHEN he was an awkward 15, shy John was fussing with an oarlock of his rowboat. The focale was the Rockefeller
home seaside
One of the local at Seal Harbour, Me. adolescent wits shouted derisively, "why don't you get a motor- · boat?" shy John looked up in genuine astonishment. “Gae UFS whiz!" he said, "who do you think we are-Vanderbilts?"
Another incident which also has to do with a boat:
Last September, Sandra Rockefeller, charming daughter of John D. 3d. returned from a tramping trip in England on the liner Arosa Sky, travelling tourist class. John, now a tall, lean, diffidently amiable 52, and his wife, the former Blanchette Ferry Hooker, waited patiently for several hours on Hudson River Pier 88 for the ship to dock.
As a Very ficportant Person,
John wouki have hati se trou-
fe getting a
to go dowil
the bay on the Coast Chiard
that met the ship Puller
Quarantine.
I never entered his head du it, even though ite aware, as he stood there.
was
JOHN WATSON
Hut of 15 cents for riotous living, with bulky oar- his daughter was going through A rowboat
pleasure yacht the ordeal of her first big press lock was n conference; and American ship it,
news reporters do blank -
sipid questions. Neither do the
brollers
Rockefriler
their weight around.
throw
Taught Frugality
Here
to are two clues the present early training and the personality of the oldest of the ve brothers, John was brought mancy. lo husband his whether it was 25 cents a week allowunce when he was a child ut now is about $100,000,000 In personal fortune.
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The
dictionary defines "hus band as a verb to meon: dirnet ΣΠΙ manage with tru- gality; to spend, apply, or
When he was with economy
week. cents a John guve a nickel rach Sunday
Reiting his 25
to
than that. to demn progressive education for all tho deficiencies to the In- struction of the young.
those who
John went to Loomis
Insti- the
Like his brothers, and basin-
ercater attraction. As a starter and under the partial eclipse of his father, John plunged into the family's philanthropie en- deavours.
He remained under that pay- tial eclipse for 10 years, coming into the light of his own. das-
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e tiny in 1999 when he succeeded
his father
chairmon of. Colonial Williamsburg, John D. Jr.'s interest In Willamsburg dated from the time he was shocked, while driving along Duke of Gloucester Street to see a posoline station sign ex-
ter. Abby. now the wife of tute in Windsor, Conn. banker Jeau Mauze, John was senior class yearbook of 1825-
the Innumerable required to account for his ex- similar
could look forward with hope to a bonus: cut, to a line.
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penditures. If wisely spent he others that append beneath the horting "Toot-An-Cum-In,"
victim's photograph an epigram !!
character... от prophecy chose a quote from Francis Bacon for John, It was sensa- tionally apt. It said: "Virtue is lke rich stone, best plain sct."
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11
There is no known record of how many times Jean was fined, but it is almost safe bs Rockefeller's word to guess it
A Princeton anecdote my The not more than ance.
serve further to sketch him in, system apparently did not end with childhood. For Abby, when In his freshman year, he made. she was 21 and a very mild his first appearance in a mali madcap. suffered a slash in her restaurant run by Joe Sippley allowance of $21 a week-out and asked Sipploy if he would mind cashing a modest cheque. atollur for each of her years
ono look at the when
poller complained she Sippley took
Bnd nearly, throw was driving somewhat too fast signature
her John out of the place she bought from inheritance fron her grund paranolae fraud.
I'
rother.
To be frugal is not to be nig-
to the church collection. Another gardly nor little of heart. nickel went inte saving.
in
F1
The cheque was signed "John
Rockefeller." It bus written that John was
Junior carne Ialo Williams burg without
re- tooting and stored to the dignity and beauty of ile historical validity.
John did mare. He attempted
to extend it from a local shirine
SPOTLIGHT ON NELSON
What sort of man is this Rockefeller-the new Govenor of New York?
What did he think of his own chances -- with
to a national concept. He started the charmed name of Rockefeller as a shield or a mill- an education campaign which atone-as he prepared for the challengo of his life?
Why did he score such a win over Averall sought to relate the trials of the on Ume Virginia capital with contemporary problems of valour and patriotism. The Department of Defence joined him in carry- ing the campaign to the armed
forces.
Harriman in his first major bid for a political role?
For the answers to these and other questions don't miss the third instalment of "The Fabulous Rocke fellers-Today" in next week's weekened issue of the CHINA MAIL
hie
"Now de-
The explosion of this nation's War II also
mpon him as a
War" nice, helpful proféeta before the entry into World been broke the coccon of John's ex- guy. He became aware of a ist brother Winthrop sald.
cessive modesty and deoply
under of things he hadn't understood he suddenly woke up and
cided he wanted to prove to the world that John was John.. He wanted to do something com pletely on hils own.”
That is administration of millions some of John's enterprisen, auch as his venture philanthropies" a causes that have not been
humiliated, which is complete estimation of his abilities. He before, including his own po certified by time and are there- fore safe, or his sponsorship of tenente. He was too genuinely was cammissioned a lieutenant- tential
Naval nullitary He was still stirring at the the tremendous Lincoln Centre Fumble to be humiliated by an commander in
that. In fact, he government.
war's end, but stirring some- at Performing Arts in New York, remarked later, "I think Joe
what confusedly. show an auducity of vision.
"Bo
"He used pretty good judgment in
stirred around” 'sald. a
had been comfortable grandfather's fellow officer. “Everyone looked just working along with family cashing nol
SANDEMAN
SCOTCH WHISKY
The King of Whiskies
* * *
incident like
cheque."
His chief extra-curricular in- create at Princeton were solleft- Prince- for the Daily
the tonin, and working with Philadelphian Society. a campus religious organisation.
You wit and no sign of that oudacity
facade John ng ads 10 the
us preseals to the world It is unobtrusive a facade as he can moite it: no towers of presump- tion. no chrome of ego. He is, as he says, "the shy one of the family."
11 may be interesting to spec- ulate Briefly on the causes that made him 40. As the oldest of the brothers, John was longest under the influence of his grand- father, John D., and his grand mother. In the present Rockefel ler galaxy in which, It has been sold, John D. Jr. is the sun and the Rockefeller brothers the
Hunted a 'Role'
His assignment was to teach the rudiments of English to those of foreign birth, in par- ticular Italians and Greeks, who worked in the kitchens at the University the grounds
Commons pr about
"I feel" he said to a friend, and is probable he mumbled
planets, John III was the first it, "that I should be doing soxte
planet to swim in orbit around the sun and to feel the pull of its gravity (pun intended).
practical service."
This, then, was the young mon for whom the golden buglo Finally, shy John's secondary counded on his graduation from school education way consider- Princeton In 1920, summoning ably more standard and con him to comply with the Rockeo- servative than that of his feller code in making an original brothers. They went to progres» and, worth-while contribution to sive Lincoln iz Manhattan, society, which may give a moment'n But how was he going to more answer it? Business held no
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LET'S
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OFFICE.
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THOUSAND?
It took some time before John found it. He returned to family affairs. He was good at
J
CH--I MUST
LEAVE NOW MY --ER--HUSBAND CAN DISCUSS
It. John húð. „succeeded" Jolin was to be a non-governmental Foster Dulles as Chairman of institution financed by. Ameri- the age Rocktefeller Foundation equs and Japanese, where he showed a talent for
commliment
was la‘Japani. 'during
what a member of the board He obtained a called "evolving a consenmis from the Rockefeller Founda- that is, dubtly and self-eracingly ten-t Arranging an accommodation of week after week of negotiation various ideas into an opinion of that John had to exercise throse polley.
qualities his colleagues'an the foundation board admire, ther method of "perhapo”. Instead of "must.”
He did not do fi by asserting his own.baliefs. He is among those fatech to see both sides of everything.
He succeeded so spectacularly that after international House Bo, on his return to New became a fact one of the pro- York from Washington ba be- minent Japaneso who worked came chairman of the General with John in establishing. It, an- Education Board, Rockefeller nouneed with sincere conviction organization to promote câues that the Japanese first thought tion in the South. But the big of it themselves. Do you think one, that is for him as a person, John's vanity was affronted? was the presidency of the now- On the contrary, he was 4x- ly-created-Rockefeller Brothers tremoly pleased, Fand the brothers' counterpart
of the Rockefeller Foundation,
It's $30,000,000 endowment
"You know," he mid, “that's made it one of the biggest in the terribly gratifying."
United States, John began find-
ing himself. by expanding the One member of the Japan fund's purpose from donations society, of which John became
to standard chartiles, known president, aunuued up his feel- as "citizenship giving" to "ven- ing about the oldest of the ture philanthropy defined Rockefeller brothers by saying, above:
"He has a beautiful soul." Shige- haru Matsumoto, a lawyer asso- The first big step on his own eluted with him in setting up was to organise, and finance, the International House, oxplained population council to deal with, how it is that John has won the or perhaps quietly call attention affection of the Japanese.
. to, the problem of the world's population growth in relation, to its economic and cultural poten- tials,
‚
But, it was Japan that became John's abiding interest. Just as a historical writer stakes out a territory so John 'staked out the Far East with Japan as the hub.
"His reserve, with fire in the heart, is pleasing to the Japa- nese people."
John's reserve with fire in the heart is now rected to- ward the creation of the Lincoln Centre of Performing Arts, in Midtown Manhattan that will magnificent structural grouping
&
be the home of opera ballet, great orchestral, misic of stage.
Jolm accompanied Secretary st Dulles la the Dence tresly negotiations in Tokyo in 1951 and Dulles naked him to sub mit a report on what might be done to improve Japanese rela-
the
When the dream is
realised will be a cause for family
and celebration
particularly John D. Jr., who pleasing to once also dreamed of erecting a new opera house for New York, It became Radio City Music Hall when the depression of the 1930's forced fellow sponsora to declare themselves out
Hons with our side.
It was on immensely in portant undertaking, for while the Japanese attitude was polite enough on the surface, it was laced with bitterness, suspicion, John who ta underneath.
hostility and misunderstanding
‚” So Dulles' request was not John a bare hone of handing
very tough, raw piece of wyent:
This was no time for tearoom chiffon ple. With the thorough ness he gives to every job, John turned in BD 80-page report. The Rist of it proposed establishment
prestige to gnaw an: it was
Jupan.
tre is dedicated it is likely that On the day that Lâuodin Cen-
almost an absto--
lous as his father, will con
sider the occasion great 'ctiongh' to warrant a glass of sherrys
But the principal glow will not emanate from a woe bit of alcohol in his stomach. It will come from the banked fire in his heart.
of on International House of NEXT SATURDAY: Nelson the fighting
Dulles was delighted. Ho sug- gested that since it was John's ides, John might, like to carry it through. John would.
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