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Remembering Bobo [Rockefeller]
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Last Edited | DFWDem May 28, 2008 01:57pm |
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News Date | Wednesday, May 28, 2008 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | Two famous New Yorkers passed away this week, both in their 90s, both children of fortune, albeit differently, and both very famous celebrities in their day, not only in New York but all over the world.
A long life for a Cinderella. Bobo Rockefeller, a now unknown name to anyone born after the mid-1950s, was a household word in those postwar days, one of the most recognizable names in the world.
She was a pretty blonde, an immigrant farmer’s daughter from the heartland who came to instant fame in 1948, when at 32, after brief marriage to a proper Bostonian she married a Rockefeller by whom she had got pregnant. There is a great possibility, in retrospect, that had she not got pregnant, she never would have married a Rockefeller. And she never would have been famous.
His name was Winthrop Aldrich Rockefeller, fourth of the five sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr., grandson of John D. Rockefeller, the richest man in the world in the 20th century and perhaps in the 21st (adjusted for inflation of course). |
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