Word: bobo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Babe Ruth died, and true grief dropped into public bathos; a coal miner's daughter nicknamed "Bobo" married into the Rockefeller clan; Manhattan's nickel subway fare went to a dime; the year's most popular book on human behavior was by a zoologist named Kinsey...
...Dwight D. Eisenhowers (transfers from Washington) turned up in the new edition of the New York Social Register, along with Mrs. Winthrop ("Bobo") Rockefeller. But a new edition of a Columbia University faculty cookbook, published the same day, showed that General Ike had not lost the common touch. It contained his folksy, first-person, column-long recipe for vegetable soup, (sample subtlety: "Take a few nasturtium stems, cut them up in small pieces, boil them separately . . . and add about a tablespoon of them...
...Saturday night,, the doctor had moved into the palace to stay. On Sunday the King tinkered with his cameras and tried to read, while Elizabeth, under the watchful eye of her nurse, Helen Rowe, and her maid, Margaret ("Bobo") MacDonald, sat around and listened to the radio or telephoned friends. At 6 p.m., just after the family tea, Elizabeth's pains began. Nurse Rowe rushed her to the delivery room and summoned Sir William. Within an hour three more doctors had slipped into the palace by the electricians' gate in the rear. Philip went moodily down to knock...
...news of Winthrop and "Bobo" Rockefeller, see MILESTONES...
Born. To Winthrop Rockefeller, 36, oilman grandson of the late John D., and Barbara Paul Sears ("Bobo") Rockefeller, 32, blonde daughter of a coal miner, whose marriage to "America's most eligible bachelor" last Valentine's Day was the tabloid romance of the year: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Winthrop Paul. Weight...