| Show How Poor Lad Won Hand Of Rockefeller Heiress i e q t elb 4 vi v i A i j 4 p. 7 5 5 g 4 lr I Mr Ir and Mrs Irs Ua Dadd ld Milton NEW YORK Jan 23 By NEA Service Given the case of oJ the potentially potentially po po- po- po richest girl in the world and told to weave a romance around her her to her to to lead her through all the experiences of girlhood and young womanhood and then to provide her with a husband so that she might live happily ever after after no no fiction writer with imagination and knowledge of popular app appeal al would dream of marrying her to a man of her own station In financial worth He instinctively would choose some ambitious young chap who was poor and honest And that was just the kind of mate Abby Rockefeller daughter of or John D. D Jr selected for herself when she decided to forsake the parental roof root and start doing her own housekeeping The young man she chose was David Merriwether Milton When hen they married last May Abby was 21 and Milton 25 Milton is a struggling New York w l. lawyer with a noted old family famil name In their romance despite Its background background back back- ground ld of or the Rocke Rockefeller eller millions there is almost ever every element of the simple artless unembellished old love story that Americans JU like e b best st st. PLAY y TOGETHER AS They played on the floor together when thEY were babies hables They winked across the hed hied at each other othel when the they grew reW into the puppy love age on the adJoining adjoining adjoining ad- ad Joining Rockefeller and Milton es estates estates estates es- es tates at Pocantico Hills 1 Th They Y went to kid parties partie's to tog together together to- to g gether ther and probably borrowed nickels nick nick- cIa els from each other to eke elte out scanty allowances for fOl some unusual extravagance For twenty years ears and more moreo this neighborly companionship linked ed them the Rockefeller fortune meantime meantime meantime mean mean- time became more mor and mon mol ex expansive expansive ox- ox the Milton fortune less and andI I less sl But to the democracy of childhood childhood child child- hood as Abb Abby and David practiced it contrasting financial changes made no The They continued to romp over O the tle hills together to confide to each other the their r secrets and d doubtless to dream together to of what they would do in the tho world w rl I I when hen the passing years brought them to maturity I BY UT SCHOOL School days separated them naturally naturally nat nat- David went to Williams imams and graduated Then he entered Columbia Columbia Colum Colum- bia bla law school Abby attended private at institutions eb qed in New York In In 1922 Abb Abby was sas presented as asa asa asa a debutante Society claimed much of her time for the ne next t two years n But t David wasn't forgotten And now for tor a picturesque de departure departure de- de part lre from the theme of simplicity simplicity sim sim- in this Rocke Roche- fe Milton feller-Milton love V affair fa Abby l bb-l liked koe to drive r an auto And she liked lilted to step stop on it She did on Riverside drive one day A cop came alongside Would John D. D daughter report to police poUce court Pl please hint But she She telephoned David He hadn't received receive his lawver's lawyers lawyer's lawyers lawyer's law law- yer's vers license then but he went vent to court ourt for her and settled the mat mat- ter S. SAVED Oddly enough the sam same thing happened again a Once Oce more o Davids David's a rt Intervention saved e Abby b from O em em- And whether it was this bit or widely heralded drama or Just a natural natural nat nat- ural unit fruition of the lifelong friendship friend ship that brought It about the engagement df I Abby and David soon was announced d. d John D. D Jr was well pleased ne told newspaper r reporters The en engagement engagement engagement en- en he Insisted had the police pollee court episodes b by a full year A modest New York apartment Is the Milton's living place Abby has lIas received but little of the Rockefeller wealth so far and David is far from being this city's s most 1 prosperous ro barrister banister But Abby Abb is getting along fa- fa moul mou with her manag management ment of or her household on rather rathel meager resources resources re re- re- re sources SO thank you Because perhaps at the age of or orS S her allowance was only 30 cents a week of or which she had to save 20 cents besides accounting In lIT de detail de- de taU tall to her multi-millionaire multi dad for forthe forthe the use she le made of the remaining H thin thuin dime I |
