Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-11-01
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

By LEMUEL r. PARTON
CONSOLIDATED Features-wNU Service.J
NJ EW YORK.-In 1888, young Mel
l son A. Rockefeller was hand
ed a delicate job of commercial
and cultural coordination, indeed
Rockefeller Well stiff assign
Qualified for His beginner in
Coordination Job sn,s f te nsr Il
suade the Fiery Diego Rivera to
x-out that head of Lenin in his mu-
rails at Rockefeller Center. He man.
aged the affair with tact and re-
straint, undisturbed by the thunder
from the left.
Now he has progressed to full
time work in that highly specialized
field. He is co-ordinator of COM
mercial and cultural relations be-
tween the United States and other
Western hemisphere nations. Cur
rently he is in the news as he ap-
points John Hay Whitney to his star,
to take care Of motion picture de-
tails OF the above co-ordinating.
I remember talking to one Of
his teachers at Lincoln school,
New York. She said Nelson was
good material for progressive
education, as he had q way Of
getting on with people. He was
good student, too, romping 50
far ahead Of schedule at Dart
mouth that they gave him his
senior year of. He devoted it
to a wanderjahr, in which be
went to India and had a long
chat with Mahatma Gandhi, and
studied photography. Taking up
the rich mans burden, he de-
voted himself mainly to the fam
lily real estate, becoming presi-
dent Of Rockefeller Center,
which, incidentally, is one of the
most successful feats of COM
mercial and cultural co-ordina-
ton in the world.
Mr.. Rockefeller, born in Bar Har-
Dor, Maine, in 1907, is tall, blonde
and reticent, an abstainer from al
cohol and tobacco, always deeply in
earnest. With his manifold business
interests he combines a careful and
diligent trusteeship of the Museum
of Modern Art. This department
can't help but feel a bit doubtful
about co-ordinating commerce and
the arts-unless there is a John
Masefield around to write a poem
like "Cargoes."
K ING BORIS of Bulgaria is doing
~ the best he can for his little
Cinderella kingdom, but things don't
look so good. He reviews troops
King Boris Would and shifts his
Rather Be Casey guns around
Jones of Balkans tbere IS , b Gut
that he is just making himself
lot of unnecessary trouble. As a
king, he never did have his heart
in his work.
He has a passion for trains
and never misses a chance to
drive locomotive. Engines fill
his life and his dreams. When
his father, Ferdinand, abdicated
in 1918, the young man insisted
that he be allowed to 20 to
America and be railroad engi-
neer, but his father forbade it,
Ascetlc in appearance, always of
seemly behavior, he moved immacu-
lately through Balkan wars, revolu-
tons and lnternecine dogfights Fer
dlnand had apprenticed him to a
versatile fighting man in 1912, when
he was only Is years old He fought
dutifully, but seemed always to be
listening for the whistle of old 81,
coming round the bend.
His wardrobe, one of the best in
Europe, runs mainly to pinstripes.
He is nimble dancer, good at all
such orthodox sports as boar-hunt-
ing and timber-topping, but aroused
and eager only when he has his
hand on the throttle of locomotive.
In 1880, he married the Prin-
cess Giovanni of Italy. This al
lance was regarded, among 9TH
er dynaStic ties, as a Stabilizing
and safeguarding influence for
his kingdom, but now seems of
small account. In 1884, internal
stress led the king to set up
dictatorship, by 4 military coup.
1t didn't help much. About 50
per cent of the exports of Bull
garia continued to 60 to totali-
tartan countries, and it came
more and more under their
thrall. The king flirted with Rus
STA for a while, with no crafty
ing results. He has been in fire.
quent peril of assassination
and nothing seems to matter
much. since they won't let him
be railroad engineer.