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Show WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER IS A TIMID MAN William Rockefeller Is intensely shy. He has a horror of courts and of publicity. He never has had a lawsuit as a private individual. One may judge his feelings, then, when the Pujo committee was after him. Personally William Rockefeller is one of the kindliest of men and one of the most polite. He smokes a great deal. His cigars are the sort that royal connoisseurs affect. If he is dictating to his stenographer and a . puff of smoke drifts the stenographer's stenog-rapher's way he has been known to apologize and to get up and open a window so' that his tobacco may give no offense. Usually William Rockefeller goes uptown on the elevated. If one of his employes happens to sit beside him Mr. Rockefeller will refrain from reading his evening paper if the employe em-ploye shows a desire to talk. . If one of Mr. Rockefeller's clerks meets him v, d-nat tWo lnrlr in likplv to lift his hat politetly. Mr. Rockefeller raises nia nat also. He likes a flat-j flat-j crowned derby of the pattern of the time when Harrison was running for I president. |