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DIED. MARY ROCKEFELLER, 91, first wife of former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller; in New York City. In 1962 she divorced her husband, to whom she had been married for 31 years and who caused a stir the following year when he wed staff member Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy. Rockefeller, a lifelong advocate for the education of nurses, was awarded an honorary degree for her efforts from Hunter College...
...merely replaced religious faith with another dogma: the authority of Science. New believers turned to evidence of the world beyond the senses, "proof given by mediums who could communicate with the dead, make ectoplasm appear in darkened chambers and order inanimate objects to move at will. Katherine and Margaretta Fox of Arcadia, N.Y., were the superstars of the new movement, adolescents who could engender a rapping sound that issued, they said, from the beyond...
When a woman has had one breast removed for cancer, her risk of developing a malignancy in her remaining breast is only about 1% in each of the next ten years. The likelihood that she will have cancer simultaneously in both breasts is even less. Last week Margaretta ("Happy") Rockefeller found that the law of averages had discriminated most cruelly against her: only five weeks after undergoing a radical mastectomy for cancer in the left breast, she had her right breast removed by less drastic surgery to eliminate a minuscule cancer that had been present but undetected at the time...
What is all this motherly media clucking about Betty Ford's and Margaretta Rockefeller's being "very private" persons? Aren't we all? The gals knew what they were getting into, the spotlight, when they took public men as their second husbands...
Rockefeller seemed to be a chief contender for the 1964 nomination-until he handed the conservatives the ammunition they needed. He divorced his wife of 31 years in 1962 and a year later married a younger woman, Margaretta Filler Murphy, whose former husband was a virologist at the Rockefeller Institute. "Happy" Murphy was forced to give up custody of her four children after she married Rockefeller. (In a sign of changing U.S. mores, three of the foursome making up the new presidential and vice-presidential couples-Gerald Ford being the one exception-have been divorced...