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...Tarrytown. Mr. Rockefeller paid more than $700,000 for the privilege of ousting 46 families, so that the new main line of the Putnam division of the New York Central R.R. may run along what was once Eastview's main street, instead of through the Rockefeller estate, "Pocantico Hills." At the same time he rid his vicinity of a mushroom congerie of dance halls, picnic groves, gas stations. The village, including houses built when Peter Stuyvesant peg-legged it along the leafy Bouwerie, is to be razed by May 1. The only Eastview buildings to be spared in Rockefeller...
Samuel Carnes Collier, 16 , son of Capitalist Barren Collier, completed last week his third season as designer-proprietor-manager of the Overlook Theatre, at Pocantico Hills, N. Y.* Built on his father's estate, the theatre is architecturally arresting, mechanically capable of showing both vaudeville and cinema to an audience of 66. The vaudeville includes magic ("Professor Alonzo, Swindler") and skits ("The Man Who Was Legally Right''). The performers are young friends of Son Collier; they give fictitious names in the programs. Said Son Collier: "I don't act unless I have to. I have enough...
Last week was not strikingly different from a hundred preceding weeks of Mr. Rockefeller. He was at his home in Lakewood, N.J. He had spent the winter and early spring at Ormond Beach, Fla. Soon he will go to his favorite estate ? 6,000-acre Pocantico Hills, with grottoes, pergolas, cascades, Greek statues, near Tarrytown, N. Y. He travels with the seasons, so that they will not interfere with his schedule...
Golf follows, usually nine holes. His best score, made at Pocantico when he was 65, was a 39. His average is between...
Another nap and the New York Evening Post occupy him before supper, at which from four to a dozen guests are present. In the evening he listens to music (there is a magnificent pipe organ at Pocantico), and plays a game called Numerica. No card advocate, he enjoys Numerica with its 52 chips, numbered from 1 to 13, with four of each number. The object of the game is to build four stacks of numbers from 1 to 13. It requires no little mathematical skill in marshalling the right chips at the right moment. Seldom has Mr. Rockefeller faced opponents...