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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1958..

AMERICA...AN INTIMATE REPORT OF THEIR LIVES...DUTIES.

THE FOUNDER... In one of the last photos at his Ormond Beach, Fla., estate, John D. Rockefeller Sr.

plays golf,

In

Prisoners Of Their

Wealth, Name

of

0

But these years were exercises of singe manager, the young Abby was no docile monentity. We have always done this, why

business acumen. They aun

Georgia

de anything elno? minister: As one of hor sons put it after should we

death, in were a post-graduate education named Ivy Lec, Lee had worked her

1048, Mother My wife's typical question was:. a Rockefeller, That for a while on Hearst's In being

New loved a good flight.”

"We have always done this, Why not do it another way, or education began when John D., York Journal but his talents Junior,

She was the energetic force hotter still why not do sovie- now 84. was a child. lay in public relations, whero behind the establishment of the thing else?" Before he was 10 he signed a also, it may have occurred to pledge never to anoke, drink him, there wil incre increy Museum of Modem Ari. Con-

Siniler to Mrs Rockefeller's cr. use pronunty. He has kept than newspaper work eculd ever ring the conservative circles;

wee the first to in which she moved, many of quietly aggressive support of it.

attire press agentry in backer's se members conaldered any contemporary art, has been John thrift, grey.

thing later than a Gainsborough D., Junior's interest in the offensive to the eye (and still United Nations. du), this was treason.

He was educated in Godilness, modesty and

the ar

offer. He

Bought Site

• John

D., Jurior

This has been considered by many to be an interational burlesque, A striptease of

of anonymity, a very difficult The strongest and 'most one to muster since It Involves sustained influence was that a disciplined retning of that of John D., Junior's wife. The rearing horse called ego, which first meeting with Abby Aldrich, is in the tables of all of us. daughter of US Sen. Nelson

words. Yet John D. Junior, on W. Aldrich of Rhede Island

ence the persuasion of his Ave suna, Jolm D, Junior broke Un took place when John D., Jondor attempted, and did very well, put up $8,500,000 for the UN horso so rigorously- that he was a student at Brown. in defining the difference in the site on the East River. That wife once remarked 你 mild may be of passing Interest that attitudes of his mother and his, was eight and a half million· ́

when they were married in 1001 with.

dollars worth of hope for the from the

mankind. It was pence of "I really don't think it is wine was absent

D. "My mother," he anid, waa venure-risk on the side of God necessary for your father to be wedding breakfast on John

Junior's request.

given to a typical question: as modest kang is,"

irritation to her sons:

The only big exception John D., Junior over inde, under the duress of hard persuasion, was to permit that soaring murgifcence in midtown Man- hattan to be called Rocke-

feller Centre.

The Rockefeller nume ls, of course, attached to the vast philanthropica but that is quito diferent from taciding it on to a

ho feels a Be uneasy about it even now,

(Contlined from page 8) 1900 total at least a billion doi- hunk of real estate. It may be Rockefeller philanthropies were lars. largely the result of consulta- tion with Frederick Taylor Gates,

Baptist the young clergyman who first met D. in 1889 and remained t become a scientist-come would soya geniusin phlianthropy.

Out of that

resulting Strong Influence

that

And perhaps it is divine Irony, ki view

the tremendous advances John medical

from their philanthropies, John D.'s father, Big Bufi, was dis- cancer quack, a nol

way of making

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association carne reputable

the birth of the University of living in those days.. The ways Chicago, tu which

D. of God are strange. Johri

through the yours gave more than $30,000,000; the huge, em- bracing Rockefeller Foundation and the Rockefeller Institute,

Impossible

When John D., Jr became the galaxy Sun of the Rockefeller

s destiny had long since been fixed. If any man's life purpose has becn ordained here on carth, it was John P. Junior's. It was not to create wealth bit

It is literally Impossible to administer it with prudence. diligence and, if possible. place a figure on the amount of

wisdom. good (how can you compute control of yellow fever, for example, in dollars?) or to list

It is true that on his gradua- tion from Browni (Phi Beta

the benefits to humanity these Kappy he entered endeavours have brought about. ki ricuce and in 1890

the arena carned Street

They are incalculable, but it the admiration of Well

States

is possible to calculate that the by engineering a financial coup contributions of John D. and in the stock of United then his son, John D. J. from Leather.

Whatever dangers there were that John D., Junior would develop, into a punctilious prig were averted

three In- vigorating and Uberallsing Lu- fluences. One was the Rev. DT Harry Emercon Fosdick, A infltant and convincing voice of inter denominational Protes- Laalism. As A result of that psscelation, John D.. Junior built Manhattan's thrusting Riverside Church,

A

wis second

W. L Mackenzie King, who was Q Canadian industrial relations Rail when John D.. Junior engaged his assistance during the riots at the Rockefeller Colorado miries in 1915.

At about this time also there came on the scene as a

sled

The 'Shy' Millionaire

WHAT makes John Rockefoller 3d tick? Is the

oldest of the five Rockefeller brothers impressed with his family's great wealth?

What early influences in his life led to his being called "the shy one of the family?“

How did he overcome this shyness and fulfil his burning ambition to "do something completely on my own?"

For the answers, read the second instalment of "The Fabulous Rockefeller Dynasty" in next week's China Mail,

An Estimate.

John D., Junior'a estimated

of

A

wealth is

nt a half billion. This is exclusive of the holdings cldest his daughter and chid,' Abby Milton Parice Maute, wife of the banker, and of the personal, fortunes of his soha

The brothers Rockefeller are belleved .to turve approxi- mately $100,000,000 each, and perhaps somewhat more." That is why the golden bugle sum- mong them each morning, each

to answer it in his own way.

Page

AND ACTIONS

GAVE COINS The late John D. Rockefeller Sr. was famous for distributing coins to his young friends in the later years of his life.

NEXT WEEK:

The Modesty of John D. III.

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"Nationalisation' a

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