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Chaplain for the commencement will be the Reverend Richard E. Hanson, Pastor of the Union Church of Pocantico Hills, Tarrytown, N.Y. The commencement speakers are the fathers of graduating seniors Barbara Ann Jones and Elizabeth Hanson, in accordance with Radcliffe custom...
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller cast his vote on the biggest morning of his life in a room stacked with deer heads, moose antlers and stuffed pheasants at Hilltop Engine Co. i Firehouse at Pocantico Hills, N.Y., the village polling place. Rockefeller bought the place some time ago to save it from foreclosure, then let the firemen have it. "How do you feel?" somebody asked. "Great!" said the Rock, 50, and he looked it-chunky, electric, tired but tireless. Way behind entrenched Democrat Averell Harriman at campaign's outset, he was now rated 9 to 5 favorite. "I've done...
Neighborly Baptist John D. Rockefeller Jr. had a surprise for the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy of the Union, who run two schools and a junior college in Tarrytown, N.Y., near the Rockefellers' Pocantico Hills estate. His gift...
...Modern Museum: "Anyone who is such a doer gets a special kick out of his times." Some of the best items are in the Rockefellers' 27-room triplex apartment overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, others at the family's 3,000 acre estate in Pocantico Hills near Tarrytown. Rockefeller has built a house in the shadow of the family mansion, where his father still spends the winter. To show off his outdoor sculpture, he has diverted streams, moved walls, replanted the shrubbery around his white shingle Dutch colonial farmhouse...
...crisis point in the 1929 stock-market panic, the late great John D. Rockefeller Sr., then 90, issued a calm statement from his home at Pocantico Hills on the Hudson: "My son and I are buying sound common stocks." Some Wall Street cynics thought his real interest in the plunging market was to cover up a big short position, but John D.'s millions induced buying confidence that stemmed the terrible tide for one day. Last week the tickers clicked out a statement that sounded like old John D. talking backwards: his son was selling $25,000,000 worth...