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...child under five belongs with the mother, unless she is drastically unqualified. He proposed that a psychiatrist called in to testify for Dr. Murphy examine Malinda. Reporters caught a glimpse of mother and child as Happy arrived at the psychiatrist's office from the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills holding Malinda...
...panel designed without fee by Painter Marc Chagall, 77, as his remembrance of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. "A poet always uses the same vocabulary," says Chagall, and his translucent sonnet displays his familiar metaphors of thin-lipped cow, floating patriarch and spiritual chicken. In Pocantico Hills, N.Y., the preserve of the Rockefellers, the Union Church received a stained-glass Chagall window depicting the good Samaritan, to be dedicated by the family to the memory of Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller...
Like a Locker Room. Rocky himself had already flown home to his estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. There he got the news-as did millions of other Americans-sitting up late to watch television with his wife. "We retired with CBS at midnight," said Rocky...
...real life, Cheever country is that strip of New York's Westchester County that stretches from the Rockefeller estate in the Pocantico Hills along the wooded ridges of the Hudson's east shore to the estuary of the Croton River. "Except that he does not commute, John leads a fairly orthodox commuter's life," says his friend E. J. Kahn
...some, the logistics of housekeeping are enormously complex. Rocky and Happy constantly shuttle between the executive mansion in Albany, their 14-room Fifth Avenue apartment (estimated cost: at least $150,000, plus yearly maintenance of $20,000), and their 3,000-acre estate in Westchester County's Pocantico Hills. If there were time they could also visit their fully staffed house on Washington's Foxhall Road, their summer home in Seal Harbor, Me., or their Venezuela ranch, where they honeymooned. Bill and Mary Scranton often drive 150 miles from the executive mansion to spend weekends at Marworth, their...