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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...
...newspaper for libel was advised by his lawyer: "Never sue. They might prove it on you." Last week in Nanticoke, Pa. (pop. 20,160) another politician proved the wisdom of this advice. Until he ran for mayor, Anthony B. Dreier, a 47-year-old ex-coal miner, never made much of a mark around coal-mining Nanticoke. But he proved to be an aggressive campaigner, charged that the politicians in power were allowing horse books, slot machines and punchboards to run in Nanticoke, was elected mayor in 1949 on an antigambling "Reform" ticket. Last summer he put his own "Independent...
About the only nonpolitical novelty scheduled by any of the networks is NBC's Curtain Call, to be produced in June by Worthington Miner, late of CBS's Studio One. Curtain Call will dramatize modern and classical short stories...
Back home after 20,000 miles of lecturing in the U.S. for the British Information Service, Lord Lawson, a former coal miner elevated to the peerage by the Labor Party, described a few quaint American eating habits: "Americans kill you with kindness . . . and with their cooking. Their meals are too big. They eat to live, not live to eat. But I go crazy over their coffee and waffles...
Perelle, Alaska-born son of an Italian miner and a Finnish mother, had to go into the financing business to turn in such a record. One of his big problems: although many bus companies needed new buses, few of them had enough money to pay in full. So Perelle, to spark his sales, has taken on a total of $4,000,000 worth of bus company "paper." It averages 4¼% interest, and Perelle regards it as a safe investment, but it ties up money that he would prefer to put into modernizing Brill's plant...