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...chisel he has made at various times enormous sums of money. He once estimated that his Lincoln statues brought him over $260,000. Three of his countless pieces give him a secure place in any history of Art: Adam & Eve, now on the John D. Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills; the gaunt standing Lincoln intended for Westminster Abbey, now in Manchester, England; the nude reclining Pan, once the largest single bronze ever cast in the U. S., on the Columbia University campus...
...Until a year ago, the 5,000,000 enthusiastic bowlers in the U. S. included few socialites. This winter, charity tournaments in most big cities and an extensive publicity campaign have helped restore the sport's cachet. John D. Rockefeller Jr. has had bowling alleys installed in his Pocantico Hills estate. Other famed bowlers are Harold Lloyd, Charles M. Schwab, Francis P. Garvan, Julius Fleischmann, Heywood Broun, Wooster Lambert (Listerine), who usually attends the Bowling Congress in his private...
...enthusiasm with which they have been received in Europe have never found much favor in this country mainly because the roads were not available for such a use. Barron Gollier, advertising mogul, has contributed much time, effort and money to popularize road races and has built a circuit in Pocantico, New York, where races have been held for some time...
...year-old John Davison Rockefeller St., as bystanders expected, but the first of 115 pieces of luggage. Few minutes later Mr. Rockefeller, well-bundled in wraps and ear muffs and accompanied by his son John Jr., was driven up in a big, black sedan. Delayed at Pocantico Hills some three months by an attack of influenza, he was at last ready for his annual trip to his winter home at Ormond Beach, Fla. The announcement day before his departure that he had given up the trip was unexplained. Before his wheel-chair was hoisted into the Pullman a friend asked...
North Tarrytown, N. Y. received a check for $10,000, half the tax due from its largest taxpayer, John Davison Rockefeller Sr. It, was the first time he had failed to pay the taxes on his Pocantico Hills estate...