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The Last Chapter Of “The Fabulous Rockefeller Dynasty
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David: young, audacious
"RELENTLESSLY DEDICATED"...FROM THE CITATION AWARDING DAVID AN HONORARY LL.D. BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.
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JOHN D. delighted in playing a game called Numerica with his grandchildren. Sometimes they played it after break- fast, sometimes af ter supper. Of the five Rockefeller brothers, David, the youngest, must have been very good at it.
Numerica consists of different coloured sets of counters, each set consisting of 52. The counters are numbered from one to 13, so that there are four of each of these numbers in one set. The object is to build four stacks of consecutive numbers as they are called out by the denler, drawing at random from his own shuffled pile. The chief danger is trap- ping a small number by a big one, blocking the sequence.
It is easy to understand why the game entranced John D. His fortune was built by a series of quick decisions or meticulously planned moves until his counters, by 1913, totalled $900,000,000, at which point he called out "Numerica,” or as we would say it now, Bingo!
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DAVID, 43, the youngest, is the sub-
ject of a ponetrating study in this, the final article of the series on "The Fabulous Rockefeller Dynasty.” He is described as audacious but not im- petuous, a thorough tactician who knew what he was doing and went right ahead.
Interest
Numerien with his career on his the US.
David begu playing resistant regional director of A
Office of Defence...... praduation from Harvard at the Health and Welfare. TES of 21. Presumably he Then the war engulfed us, could have gone immediately and, in 1942, David entiated as into banking. The Hockefellers a private in the Army, follow- In Chase ing the example of his brother Nutional, as it was then called. Winthrop. He did not go ravits uncle, Winthrop Aldrich, through combat, as Winthrop was chairsion of the beard Res did, but ho served with dis- he did not want a soft, cushy thetion (as his honours attest) At 43, David is far from ready
France. Thus David, coming out of Institute for Medical Research, job, anything approaching in North Africa, and to cry Numerical But i Hre, World War II with the Legion succeeding his father, And he oEE.
He came out or if a expinin. both as
counter was a year abnaker and in the of Merit, the Army commenda- is deeply Involved as one
of The French the leaders in al
School good works he has performed tion ribbon
London the
of In response to the Hockefellers' Legion of Honour, helped # development. programme, for Econamles, Artel on top of thai golden bugle
to turdy start summons
1 French restou- lower Manhattan,
another counter of comprising he placed service, has been a sequence of rant.
This was
no tremendous zoning, slum clearance, private hard study for a Ph.D. at the counters, each one painstakingly undertaking in philanthropy in housing, shopping and enter University of Chicago, One of placed on another,
Hockefeller manner
Some aequaintances of fle family have called David ths *perious one** of the brothers, This doesn't quite soy it, for itplies continuous Some of
emation.
moved of his coua,
ters that David has made-hij battle, for example, rehabili
tute the Morningside Heights
Manhattan-have re-
arca in
quired audacity
David
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MAYOR LAGUARDIA AND DAVİD ROCKEFELLER
Shown in 1940, when the latter served as Mayor's Secretary
But the tactical preparation ceded experts in stirring up has consistently disclaimed, per-
Now he placed the Chase His tainment-in brief a city within the noctely writers of the time counter of bisa personal Numerics and the audacity of which he popular cutery. Not more than sonal credit for any of his acTM
lowest juntor
He began in the
executive post is capable are perhaps best about one-third of the fam-complishments. Those things tion, me quaistant manager in illustrated in his presidency of lies living in the area of the are never done by one person," projected development could he says. He is, of course, right. posibly be taken care of in But there is one person, usually, it. What was going to happen who is the driving force behind to the remaining two-thirda? them. Lawrence M. Orton, Thrown out of their homes, member of the City Planning cried the Communists; they Commission and executive
JOHN WATSON
fall of sweet wrote a column
why, distress. Why, moaned, did this sensationally eligible bachelor spend a Bum- BICT vacation boning up pa political Sconomy when
been the delight might have of hostesses and the quarry of highly marriageable girls and their mothers? The writer
Блус would
plaintively dorsed the title of
or
en-
David'
not
In
haa baidy wanted to open a French a city in a section that is occu- been bold when the weasion restaurant; David appreciates pied by day by men of fluance, demanded, but he has never use fout, It was a corament brokers, tbe speculative and thesis, "Unused Resources and beon impetuous. His mudacity oble enuse,
(ish markets, and by night Economic Waste"--but has always been backed by David also likes good wine, resembles 0 krotesque sky the context he meant. thorough preparation, like that So he bought
scraper graveyard, except fot of A military tacticiun. He
A few policemen, hums, and moves from the strength of a
wharf rats. nearly unassailable positon
When the nucleus of the
piece of a French vineyard. Une wonder": whether, as he goes about the outterly routine of his bankers dey, he does not wish on occa-
Li
Fuent
départment.
Bat Morningside Heights, The.
it was not long before he con- vinced thote who through envy and polite malice wanted to think bo who riding on thn Rockefeller name, that he in- tended to be judged on his own accomplishments as an indivi-
dusi.
This is an area of Manhattan were dispensable; as Marie An- director of Morningside Heights, that was becoming an oasis of toinette had exclaimed, "let Inc.. had this to say a couple of culture du a creeping desert of them cal cake." Rockefeller years ago; David never sidestepped work. slums, Morningside Heights, was saying, let them sleep a He invited it. And when he speaking culturally. means the gutter, Thus the Com. had a point to maké, a position Columbia University, Barnard munists whooped it up.
fellera
to take, bo made sure he had College, Jutillard School of They did not reckon QIZL marshalled every possible fact to Nasio Union Theological David Morningside Hoights, support him. "It's hard to argue Seminary, Riverside Church. Ino, assumed financial respon- "It is largely due to David with him," one of his associates David's Brit move to thrust siblility for rehousing, displaced Rockefeller's leadership that rmarked, "because ho always ́ back' the desert was to organise families. This was a bold and Morningside Heights became A bucaine known a couple But, surely with a doctorate makes sure his position is these institutions into the progressivo answer by a private reality. Ile in, a happy example Ling that he was at case among et years ago, with announce- hanging from his belt, David reasonable,"
corporation of Morningside organisation. But the matter of the younger then, who are grupe, holding a glass, per-
that Chase Manhattan
Hv was how ready for Chase, and
brought the same Heights.
did not end there. czmo accepting responsibility for ad- heps, and watching the "beaded would put up a 60-storey bulld- Chase for him Not for a planning in the part all Rocke- Out of this unity, came the up before a hoaring of the city's vancing the development of the bubbles blinking at the brim, ing with spectacular plaza, one while.
must play a philon- suggestion that city govern- Board of Estimate in a packed entire city," Yet, in common with all the
as Keats put it with ecstatic
New York newspaper surnised At 24 David became one of the throple endeavours and good ment to wipe out, two whole and turbulent session.
As David has advanced in alliteration. Rockefeller brothers, there aro
Uhre development might be secretaries of New York's Mayor works of their own. Besides blocks, of stum eberoachment David presented the case for banking-from 'Assistant man- k aspects of personally thai are If these moments occur they known as "Downtown Rockefel- LaGuardia without pay. This those activities already men and to replace them with a his side, Ho quietly endured sger to vice president, execu- like plects packed by mistake do not last longer than iter Centre. David did not find just seemed to me," he said, "an tiened, David became executive Morningside Heights spon- the heckling. He did not In- tive vie president and now^" Into a jigsaw puzzle box. They takes to say Chase Manhattan, the suggestion either construe- extraordinary opportunity to committee chairman of Inter-sored housing development, dulge in empty oratory; indeed, vize chairman he has grown not AL anywhere. The As vice chairman of New York live or amusing. He said he find 11 about municipal rational House, the home for The Communists thought with his nature, he could not. equally as a person. And so has brothers ATD human beings. City's largest bank (the na- had no idea what it would be government, so I took it." He foreign students in New York; that David had bonded them. He had prepared an answer for be answered, in his "relentlessly Nope is a robot of rigid tradi- tion's second largest) David called and added, "I know one spent a year Anding out and end vice chairman of the an issue on a Rockefeller plot every foreseen objection He dedicated" way, the golden tion as ferend tends to mako has plenty to do. In adition came that won't be aļtached to then moved into an outpost of Carnegie Endowment for Inter ter. They used all the cunning won
bugle, call of the Rockefeller... ho is president of Rockefeller it."
Federal government, becoming national Peace.
they had and they are còn- „Dayla disclaires, la fact. he Farmily.
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