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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...