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...rickety story-and-a-half farmhouse in which was born John Davison Rockefeller was moved piece by piece from its foundation in Tioga county, N. Y., to Coney Island, New York fun park. Last year Mrs. Sarah S. Dennen, the owner, announced she would move the structure to Coney Island in one piece, movers to be trained by highway authorities lest their bridges be damaged. In dismantling the house workmen found "a little homespun vest for a child of four or five years, tucked deeply away in the corner of a bedroom." Mrs. Dennen turned it over to the Metropolitan...
...John Davison Rockefeller Jr., speaking to the seniors at Dartmouth's annual Commencement luncheon, quoted an unnamed authority on fatherly advice: " 'My son, so live that you can look any damned man in the eye and tell him to go to hell...
...current Dartmouth Alumni Magazine is an essay by Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, second son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., married last week (see p. 48). Subject: "The Use of Leisure." Excerpt: "Probably the thing from which I derived the most benefit in connection with The Five Arts* was the contact I had with outside speakers. . . . A day or so spent in the company of such men and women as Harry Emerson Fosdick, Thornton Wilder, Bertrand Russell, and Edna St. Vincent Millay are opportunities that few are fortunate enough to have...
Married. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, second son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., and Mary Todhunter Clark, Philadelphia socialite: at Bala...
Forty members of the Glee Club will gather at this Tercentenary event next month, to render a program gleaned from outstanding numbers of the past season. This is the first mid-summer gathering of the kind in several years. A. T. Davison '96 will act as conductor...