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...eager. As he tried to pass a car on a curve near the town of Glendale, Utah, a truck carrying 27 tons of steel headed straight at him. The big truck smashed Brown's truck against a rocky hill. Brown, his wife Sandra, 23, his daughters Robin, 4, and Michelle, 4 months, his brother-in-law David Jepsen, 19, all died. Only his third daughter, Sammie Kay, 1½, survived...
Happy went to the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., graduated in 1944, earning a record of average scholarship and her nickname ("because she just made everybody happy," recalls a classmate). In December 1948, she married Dr. "Robin" Murphy in a big society wedding in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer called Happy "pulchritudinous," "superbly lovely" and noted that she wore a bridal gown "brought from Belgium by her great-great-grandmother and worn by every bride in the family since then...
Happy's husband, a graduate of Milton Academy and Princeton, was then a fellow at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. His father, Dr. James B. Murphy, had been for nearly 40 years a cancer research scientist with the Rockefeller Institute. Because of this relationship, Robin was close to the Rockefellers, had spent a good deal of time as a youngster with David Rockefeller, and even now lives in a town house adjacent to David's town house in New York's East Sixties...
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...
Happy worked for Rockefeller as a volunteer in 1958, during his first campaign for Governor. A bit later, he hired her for his personal staff, a job she held until 1961. When the Governor was divorced, there was a whirlwind of reports that Happy would soon split up with Robin. It took more than a year...