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...honeymoon at his Venezuela ranch and at Brother Laurance's comfort able Virgin Islands bungalow, told greeters at Idlewild airport that he was "very happy to be back." He and his second bride, the former Mrs. Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy, planned to settle down in Rocky's Pocantico Hills estate, then take a get-acquainted tour of New York State. As the Governor stepped toward a waiting car, somebody called out: "The Duke and Duchess of Windsor said they're happy for you." After reflecting for a moment on the implications of that,+. Rockefeller called back: "That...
...Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills. Smith violated the Presbyterian Church Constitution, which requires that persons divorced less than a year can be married only with special permission from the local presbytery. Happy was divorced from Dr. James Murphy in Idaho on April 1. Rocky from Mrs. Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller 14 months ago. Rockefeller is a Baptist; Happy, raised as an Episcopalian, recently became a Presbyterian. Both frequently attended Smith's interdenominational church in Pocantico Hills. Irrelevant? General press reaction was far less critical than that of the clergy. Many of the nation's newspaper editors seemed...
...with a tightly written, three-page announcement issued by the Rockefeller brothers' office in Manhattan. It began: "Mrs. Margaretta Fitler Murphy and Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, both of New York, were married today at noon at the home of the Governor's brother, Laurance S., at Pocantico Hills...
Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy, 36, wearing a pale blue dress of silk shantung and carrying a bouquet of spring flowers, and Nelson Rockefeller, 54, were married by the Rev. Marshall L. Smith, a Presbyterian who is pastor of the interdenominational Union Church of Pocantico Hills. Margaretta is also a Presbyterian; Rockefeller is a Baptist. Only a dozen persons, members of both families, were present...
Family Ties. Robin Murphy walked in his father's footsteps, wound up in 1958 working as a virologist at the Rockefeller Institute. He is still there. The Murphys, who have four children, bought a home near Nelson Rockefeller's Pocantico Hills estate in New York's Westchester County, a summer place near Rocky's Seal Harbor, Me., home. Happy's own family had been Main Line friends with the Philadelphia Clarks. Their daughter was Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, tall, reserved former wife of Nelson, mother of his five children. She divorced the Governor in Reno...