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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Jan. 17, 1964
'Happy' Entertains NY Women
By Gay Pauley UPI Women's Editor
ALBANY, N.Y.—(UPI) —Margaretta Rockefeller came down the wide, carpeted stairs of the governor's mansion walking like a small girl wishing to hop and skip but restrained by Sunday-best manners.
She moved quickly, in her chic low-heeled pumps, into the red-cupped reception room on the main floor of the mansion where about 30 prominent New York women had gathered at her invitation.
SHE BEGAN shaking hands and greeting old friends immediately. And before the afternoon was over, she was to offer to pack sandwiches for guests returning to New York City by train.
The woman whose husband wants to be the next president wore a slimcut wool dress in a dark taupe, a gold pin on her left shoulder, a double strand of pearls, and a narrow gold wedding band on her left hand. The dress blended with her coloring—brown eyes, tawny skin, blonde-brown hair worn in a casual page boy.
Someone tried to organize a reception line in the adjacent drawing room with its oyster white decor and crystal chandeliers, a Rockefeller gift to the mansion.
BUT THE receiving line never got
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Although most women tend to agree whole-heartedly, they can't tell a person very much about her best friend.
FOR INSTANCE, they do not know that their friend is originally from India, South America, or Africa, where it was mined from certain rock formations.
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much further than to include the Governor's wife, Guin Hall, who is deputy commissioner of the New York State Department of Commerce, and Jane Todd, former vice-chairman of the Republican state committee. And it held together no more than 10 minutes.
I got the feeling that Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller is too informal in her approach to people to care much about such clichés of protocol.
The occasion was a tea that Rockefeller and his wife of a little more than a year gave the New York State woman's council, a nonpartisan group of women leaders in business and the professions who act as advisors to the Department of Commerce. The tea, to which this reporter also was invited, concluded a two-day conference of the council.
Mrs. Rockefeller, 37, is the former Margaretta Fitter, mother of four children by her first marriage to Dr. James Slater Murphy of the Rockefeller Institute. Rockefeller and his first wife, Mary Clark Rockefeller, who divorced him after 31 years of marriage, had five children—one of whom, Michael, died in 1961 on a trip to New Guinea to collect native art.
Now, the governor and "Happy," as the second Mrs. Rockefeller is known, are expecting a child in June—in time for him to go to the Republican national convention as a newly proud father.
THE WOMAN'S council took note of the coming event with a surprise gift for Mrs. Rockefeller—a silver baby cup to be inscribed "with full details later," as the council told her.
Mrs. Rockefeller gasped in surprise, then colored. She told the women, "Thank you very much."
In a few minutes, Rockefeller arrived and Miss Hall asked him to say a few words. The Governor, one of two Republicans to announce formally for the presidential nomination, praised the council for its work in furthering job opportunities for women. He spoke of the "break-through" women had made in one job after another and of how it was Miss Todd who had started him in politics.
"Now," said Rockefereler, and he grabbed his wife's hand, "Let's all go have some tea. Or maybe what we need this afternoon is a drink." It had been zero weather in this city blanketed by more than a foot of snow.
THE GOVERNOR circulated a bit more and then quietly disappeared to his office as Mrs. Rockefeller mingled with guests in the formal dining room.
Would she now add a nursery to the mansion? "I don't know that we'll call it that," she laughed, "But there'll be a room."
Would she campaign with Rockefeller? "I hope to do as much as I can," she said. And whether she would withdraw from official functions as time for the birth neared "depends" on how she feels physically, she said. "Right now I feel fine, just wonderful."
Too Busy For School
OXFORD. ENGLAND—(UPI) — Prof. Nevill Coghil, who once tutored actor Richard Burton at Oxford, said today he doubted his old pupil would be able to keep his promise to star in the university's forthcoming production of "Faustus."
"He is a very generous chap," Coghill said of Burton, "But I dare-say he has a lot of things on his mind at the moment."
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