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...included in a full annual report, detailing all the ultimate capillary destinations of the flow of gold which last year poured from the heart of the Rockefeller philanthropic empire in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center-much but by no means all of it under the eye of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., chairman of the Foundation's board of trustees. The following is a sample- very far short of a comprehensive list- of what Rockefeller money bought...
Last week the following were news: ¶ The late John Davison Rockefeller was a member of the New York Stock Exchange for the last 54 years of his long life. Only once did he enter the building, when he appeared before the admissions committee. The seat entitled thrifty Mr. Rockefeller to reduced commissions. Last week it was announced that the Rockefeller seat would be transferred to Grandson Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, one of the five strapping sons of John...
...John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (Brown '97) has distributed his offspring among U. S. colleges with the same conscientious impartiality that has characterized his largess. John Davison Rockefeller III was Princeton '29; Nelson Aldrich, Dartmouth '30; Laurance Spelman, Princeton '32; Winthrop Aldrich, Yale '35 (but no graduate); David, Harvard '36. Last week Princeton, which is currently seeking $6,500,000, elected serious young John D. Ill a life member of its Board of Trustees. Mr. Rockefeller; 31, is already a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, the General Education Board, the American Museum of Natural History...
Born. To John Davison Rockefeller 3rd & Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller; a second child, a son; in New York. Name: John Rockefeller...
John Rockefeller Prentice, 34, bachelor Chicago lawyer and grandson of the late John Davison Rockefeller, met Trained Nurse Margaret Montgomery, 27, at Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital when he broke his kneecap in an automobile accident last September. They became ''very dear friends" until recently, when he told her he could see her no oftener than once a week. Late one night last week Nurse Montgomery called him, told him that she had been kidnapped, begged him to come to her in a South Side restaurant. Skeptical, Mr. Prentice called Margaret Montgomery's roommate, who immediately notified...