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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1958,

THE FABULOUS ROCKEFELLER DYNASTY

HE FOUND HIMSELF IN

"Winthrop's continuity has been the common

His brother, Laurance,

THERE is, of course, no such creature as the common man. Like "the average man," the symbol of statisticians and the error of editors, he is a fiction. All men are uncommon one to another as snowflakes are one to another.

Laurance spoke in the form of an aphorism, which sometimes sacrifices exactness for conden- sation and effect. A definition of an aphorism is: "A short, pithy sentence stating a general truth."

By

JOHN WATSON

TODAY John Watson, in the fifth of

his series, looks into the life of Winthrop Rockefeller, combat soldier, labourer, humanitarian and payer, of astronomical marriage søttlement.

pieces, that being the

It is a general truth that in ternes of falling down and picking himself up again, in a blundering search for in dolina Winthrop Dok id his destiny, in emotional distress, Winthrop has more in settlement common—at least mare experiences in open view--with humanity than his brothers,

If we return to the atet.-

armount colleges for men and women. Among Nelson's prized tokens of recognition are an honorary dawgo él doctor of lawn from Feshiva University and the 1989 Christopher Columbus award from the Knights of Columbus

He has been the most In- Unsely concerned, no! 45 lamboyant erusader but as

Of living example, in

ff has been the enly brodber kind

phy of A family associate to sweat in hi ad plissient labour breaking through the bigot bar-

that the Eve Bocketviler He has seem the only or to brothers are planets orbit through Estival 201 ing around iL SUD,

their War 11.

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father John D. Jr., then I has been the only one so Winthrop's D in closest go thruagh nu emotional smash. to us earthlings. It hats up when his marriage to Dar- also been the most erratic bara Paat Seat-the Bobo of

Cafe Society and the de in the Rockefeller galaxy, -hintegrated into six million

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

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"I won't decide on a pair today, but I certainly enjoyed the nice rest!

les of race.

Contagrons, Truly liberal Abby Aldrich Rockefeller once whole afetler to her sms. It said:

"One of the greatest causes FALO of evil in the world is hatred or race prejudice,

“You boys are still young. No rup of people has ever donc you 1 personal injury. Yun have not lahiertted dislikes. beseech you to begin your lives -- young men by lying the other fellow a fair chance a square deal.

and

But Winthrop, by reason of temperament and circumstance, to in a more favourable position to express in action the "Rocke- feller Interracial friendliness; to project his understanding into the feelings of another,

A

His long-limo feland and gen- ntal superintendent of NA 1,500-acre farm, Winrock, Arkansas, is Jimmy Hudson, college-educatod Negro from New York's Harlem,

As stultman of colente! WH- Hamsburg, an inspired Rocke- feller chdeavour to perpetuate An American heritage. Win- throp opened the restaurants place and

inds of the restoration to who Negroes. He was supported br the forthright approval of bls

Negroes no-called 'despised' raees brother, John, who

preceded friend; Think of having friendly him in that job.

"Put yourselves in the of an honest, poor man happens to belong

ihe

to one

of

hand held out to you, na kindly took, no pleasant, encouraging word spoken to you.

"Never Say or do anything which would wound the feel- tags or the self-respect of anf human being, and give special consideration te mil whe

fn any way repressed.

"I long to have our

stand armly for what

and highest in life,"

Tolerance

are

family

Is trest

Nonc of the brother?

has

Aids School

For a long time Winthrop has been an officer of the National Urban Leaguo, which works to improve the social, economic and cultural conditions of Ne- groes in cities.

any And it is as cortain as thing can be in this world that the children of

present hig wife, the former Mrs Jeanette Edris, will altend a desegre- gated school in the county where the farm is situated.

This

KAT YULEVIS

Serve w

TODAY

ARKANSAS

MR AND MRS. WINTHROP ROCKEFELLER

Shown at the time of their marringo two years ago

of

as a

thousands is why

think of him why he WEY called "Brother Rock" by his fellow soldiers in the 77th Division. And today, at 40. Winthrop can see that line straightening out and running true.

DAVID THE SERIOUS ONE

THE serious" one.

That's what some family acquaintances call David Rockefol lór, the banker,” but there are other facets to his nature, and thëse include audacity.

Next week, in the last of his series, John Watson digs into the personality of this, in- dustrious grandson of John D. and comes up with some fascinating observationul.

Read it in China Mail.

the

die was named Man-of-the- Year in an Arkansas newspaper pool. There is even tolk that in time he may be tapped 'pa br Independent candidate for Governor.

It was a long, twisting trail. It has levelled off.

You look at pictures of Win- throp now and you see a hoppy

Winthrop, was still a mea in Paul, could hold that marriage mari.

searche of himself and in the together. process of searching he becaine Poo sheritag bachelor- about-town.

He was an escort

of Mary Marlin for a spell.

Then he met and succumbed to Bobo's blonde enchantment, He married her, the daughter Early in 1941, when the of a Lithuanian coal rainer in brief wed- threat of our involvement in Florida, and after

war was edging inexorably ding trip they arrived at Win- the closer, Winthrop enlisted in the thrup's Park Ave, apartment Army as a private. In the five on bitter cold day in Febru- years he spent in the Army he ary, 1018. went up through all the grades to eutenant colonel

flo fought through an am- buah, was wotunded of Okinawa, laid low by Jaundice. When ho rot

home Brother Rook badly nerdod a rest.

Affection

Now

the covered

Moved To Arkansas

In 1853. on invitation of an Army buddy, Frank Newell, au Arkansas Insurance man, Win- throp pulled up stakes and moved to the State that has chosen the mockingbird as its official bird. At that time Win- thrup would have thought it a. singularly appropriate choice.

The end of the Bobo affair cost. Wilbrod $0,000,000 In rettlement. Considering that he *** "hus” a personal fortune of about $100,000,000, as does cash of York reporters who his brothers, that wasn't too story remember staggering a blow, I was the with affection. He shattering experience" that had Winthrop suggested 10 those hunched hen down. violated this Injunction. Winthrop gave the county

together in the cold that they The big thing is that he got Religious tolerance and racial school system a $2,500,000 -

up again. The goldon bugle equity are part of the family's dowment au the assurance to thinking of the men lie terved promised, would be in the lobby to the brothers

While getting it he kept Ru get some coffee and Acep

wamt. He and his bride, he call the Rockefeller summons heritage, beginning when John desegregation world be prae-

to make an with, and from there, to the in exactly an hour. They were, ticed. 1 contributed regularly to the

original contribution to society problems of veterans generally. Underground Railroad, which

It would serve no purpose

-came to Winthrop at first in helped Fugitive slaves

Thus, when Laurance made Word of his intorest reached acrest

here to warn over the details of key dissonance. But it came his remark about the border into Canada, while

Winthrop's Scoretary of War Patterson of that doomed mesalliance, finally clear and strong.

asked him to make an he

In addition to his "essential was making

"continuity" it would have been who a pittance

Winthrop took Bobo to his borde

to the humanity and

inesti- week

more exact to say it was related official survey. bookkeeper

the Rockefeller Focantico mable influence of the living Cleland.

to human beings.

The upshot was eight months, Hills estate.

ག་ never saw

people work example he sets against raclat 18,000 miles of travel with his

given his prejudice, ho has friend Jimmy Hudson and a harder to make anyone feel

development. money to water education, medical training and report containing recommend- home," a friend said. ations for veterans' rehabilita-

But it was no go. Not even rural health in his adopted tlon.

The birth

son, Winthrop, state,

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John D. Jr. Grisly And any, meny

has given gen- continually for years to Negro

This has been his dominant lifeline, the thread of his exist

It has been zig-zag and colling back on itself, but has never broken,

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