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Choral director Archibald T. Davison '06, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, emeritus, died at his home Monday night...
...cats prowl; and no jazz musician considers his career made until he has made it in Manhattan. There are also places like the Metropole, where the old-timers of Dixieland stand atop the bar and blare forth to people who come in off Seventh Avenue. Wild Bill Davison, Roy Eldridge, Henry ("Red") Allen-they all show up at the Central Plaza, a mammoth jungle gym where teen-agers bring their own bottles and where there are two cops in uniform, so it seems, for every...
...tune of $1,000,000 in Rockefeller money to promote the teaching and public understanding of osteopathy. The pianist-patient was California-born Martha Baird, then in her 30s. And Martha Baird, after the death of her second husband in 1950, became in 1951 the second wife of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. In nine years of marriage before his death this May, John D. Jr. also, at his wife's suggestion, enjoyed Dr. Wilson's ministrations...
...heir to a hated name. It was a harsh and heady time, when vast financial empires were rising on the bones of their crushed competition and the U.S. was racing toward its manifest destiny as a world power. No man was richer, more ruthless or less popular than John Davison Rockefeller, the lord of Standard Oil. and no man seemed less qualified to follow him than the shy and sheltered boy who was his namesake. Yet, when he died in a Tucson, Ariz, hospital last week, a frail and tired man of 86, John D. Rockefeller Jr. had turned...
Died. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., 86, philanthropist son of the two-fisted founder of the Standard Oil empire, father of New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller; of pneumonia and heart strain; in Tucson, Ariz, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...