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Directed by ROBERT ALDRICH Screenplay by TRACY KEENAN WYNN
...Nelson was a different kind of Rockefeller, more outgoing, less cost-conscious than his four brothers. While they tended to reflect their father John D. Jr., a shy philanthropist and devout Baptist, Nelson was closer to his mother Abby, the daughter of the powerful Rhode Island Senator Nelson Aldrich. It was Abby who imbued her son with a tender social conscience and a lifelong love...
...distribute tapes of old shows (rental price to members: 50? each). The Boston area's Radio Collectors of America (R.C.A.) (23 Winthrop Rd., Hingham, Mass. 02043) gathers programs and distributes tapes to libraries for the blind across the country. It also holds animated group discussions ("Would Henry Aldrich make it in today's sexy-dopey-violent teen-age world...
...that scared them, yet beckoned them on into adulthood. Happy Days' teen-agers hang around the same drive-ins, drive the same hot-rods, listen to the same rock music, but otherwise bear no resemblance to Graffiti's kids. Instead they are the inheritors of the Henry Aldrich tradition, in which the awkwardness, sexual inexperience and general un-worldliness of youth are good only for an indulgent, nostalgic laugh. They are never touched by honest rue, let alone intimations of tragedy. The program is full of period references-Mickey Spillane, stuffing telephone booths, a wondrous new gadget known...
Died. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, 88, longtime head of the Rockefeller banking empire and former ambassador to Britain (1953-57); in Manhattan. The lawyer son of a prominent banking family, Aldrich became a Rockefeller in-law in 1901 when his sister Abby married John D. Rockefeller Jr. Aldrich was later appointed chief counsel of the Rockefeller-controlled Equitable Trust Co. After twelve years he became chairman of the Chase National (now Chase Manhattan) Bank and earned resentment from the financial community for proposing such reforms as the absolute separation of investment and commercial banking. A spruce, reserved descendant of Mayflower passengers...