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Tli unday. Nlt;1 1M0Doesn't Plan Divorce From Wealthy Heir To Oil FortuneBobo Rockefeller, Well-Known Cinderella Girl Of Modern Time, Visits In Hollywood»7 LODELLA O. fAMOW ms Mottos Picture EditorHOLLYWOOD. Nov 2 — Mr*. Winthrop Rockefeller, blonde, blue-eyed “Bobo.” most famous of all modem Cinderella*, is in Holly-wood.She made an unexpected trip here with her small son. Winthrop. jr.. and 1 must say when I met her at luncheon with Marion Davies. I was agreeably surprised. Young Mrs. Rockefeller has intelligence, a very pleasing personality. and a sweetness that won me over completely.Bobo has been described as a peasant girl, who wears black, looks untidy, cares little for her appearances, and is on the plump side. That definitely is not true Vary Wall GroomedThe slender girl I met is chic, very well groomed, and looked excepuonally well in a becoming black taffeta dress tnmmed in red and made in the latest mode She might have stepped out of Harpers' Bazaar.She wears her blonde hair in the new short style, and I thought as I talked with her that I had never seen bluer eyes.One thing I especially liked about Bobo is that she looks right at you and her sincerity is unmistakable There is a dignity about her. too. and an awareness ofI newspaper people because she I feels that much which has been printed about her is untrue. At firs: she measured her words very ; carefully, that is. until she felt t she could trust me. Then she talk-! ed frankly and without restraint,■ encouraged by Marion Davies, whom she likes very much and who is an old friend of Winthrop RockefellerNot Gatling Divorce I In answer to my questions about her separation and divorce from ; the wealthy Winthrop Rockefeller. ; heir to the John D Rockefeller oil fortune, one of the greatest In the■ world, she said:No. I am not getting a divorce and never will, because I think It's wrong where a child is involved. I was married to Richard Sears [ for seven years, but we had no | children and so I had no hesitancy I in going into court.I am the child of divorced parents and I know what it means. I -do not want little Winnie to suffer through any fault of his par*I e:». I do no; want him to wonder I who was nght and who was wrongi “I will never say a word against my husband to my son. I want him to respect his father and love him and be proud of him because I think it is important to his happiness .Had Other Chancee• I married Winthrop Rockefeller because I loved him. not because he had a fortune. I had chances to marry other rich men with plenty of money and social position.Winthrop. she said, is in South America, and when 1 asked if she heard fiom him. she sadly shook her head.Bobo, who came to Los Angeles from San Francisco where she was called by the illness of a friend, spent the summer with her mother and stepfather on their farm in Lowell. Ind.. where she said she'My mother said 'We like it rustic, like this.' she explained, but the wood or. the shed, which came from the Chicago World's fair in 1891. had never been painted. so 1 painted that when I could not get anyone else to do the work I also put down the flagstones with my own two hands.”A Typical Boy I looked at her hands, which bore no evidence of manual labor. They are slender and well-manicured.I brought my son to my mother's farm ” rhe told me. because I wanted him to live outdoors and love nature as 1 do. He wears blue jeans and is a typical boy.“1 never want him to feel that he is a rich man's son and must be treated like a hothouse flower.“I wish you could sec him. He is so big for his age and so husky. \ He eats everything and is much i larger than most boys his age You ! see. he is a little past two years old. and. if I may be pardoned for saying it. very blight.”Bobo takes care of her son herself because it is a labor of love, although she admits it is difficult to get up at 6 a. nt . his rising hour. r“* •••*- -j— *— h.-aiHwtiiriwB.sohrsoticofboCishth.mebai•••iwplatIHlipfn4arI:ravlt;liuova..fuma'Mrflu.l
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Lubbock Morning Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Thu, Nov 02, 1950
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