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...stepfather's small farm near Lowell, Ind., Barbara Paul Sears ("Bobo") Rockefeller, 35, the miner's "Cinderella" daughter who married Winthrop Rockefeller in 1948 and separated from him 2½ years ago, cried out against the false glitter of gold. Of the $1,000,000 trust fund set up by her husband last February for their three-year-old son, Winthrop Jr., Bobo said contemptuously: "It doesn't mean a thing. It's inadequate if he's to be raised to the station in life that a Rockefeller should be . . . A Rockefeller wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 23, 1952 | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...round air conditioning. It is the latest evidence that the young home-air-conditioning industry is rapidly growing up. In the past five years its sales have skyrocketed from $19 million to $91 million, and the 18 companies that make home air conditioning hopefully think of themselves as the "Cinderella industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Making Cold Hot | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

LaSalle continued its Cinderella role in the National Invitation Basketball Tournament last night by knocking off top-seeded Duquesne, 59 to 46, to gain the championship round. It was the third straight upset victory for unseeded LaSalle, which beat towering Seton Hall and fourth-rated St. John's in earlier appearances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 3/14/1952 | See Source »

...Esther.* "The World's Greatest Cinderella Story, Ripe with the Wisdom of Ages, Yet Trembling with Topicality; Throbbing with Tempestuous Passion, Yet deeply Religious and Reverent . . . Sensational drama direct from the bestselling book of all time . . . Real wine was drunk in the screening of the royal feast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Lot Goes to Town | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...Girl at the Fountain. After a siege of maltreatment in a foster home in Modesto ("I was a scullery maid, a cheap Cinderella with no hope of a pumpkin"), Lana moved to Los Angeles with her mother, who went to work in a beauty parlor. One sunny morning, when Lana was a lush 15, she sneaked out of Hollywood High School to play hooky at a Sunset Boulevard soda fountain. A man walked up and said: "How would you like to be in pictures?" Surprisingly, the proposition was on the level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Life of a Sweater Girl | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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