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have these stars in common with Nelson
SUSAN HAYWARD • ARTHUR GODFREY • FRANK SINATRA • ELIZABETH TAYLOR • INGRID BERGMAN • BILL TALMAN • SOPHIA LOREN • ROBERT MITCHUM
what
do they know that he
is now learning?
Suicide. Political suicide. The world was stunned, shocked. Even The New York Times ran a banner headline announcing that the thirty-one-year marriage of Nelson Rockefeller and Mary Todhunter Clark was over. The news shook the Republican party to its roots. Partv leaders remembered all too well
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what had happened to Adlai Stevenson in his tries for the presidency. What was it that one of Stevenson's party workers had told a reporter? “I worked for Stevenson in both his campaigns. And both times I got hundreds of letters, from the South especially, asking how I could work for a divorced man. That hurt him,
all right, his being divorced. And now I don’t envy Rockefeller if he goes through with this . . . it’s not easy for a divorced man in politics, believe me.” Republican party leaders knew this. Rockefeller knew it. But what he didn’t know when his separation from Mary was announced was that his trouble, his suffering, had only begun. The worst was yet to come.
He’d been riding in a giant bubble that knew only one direction — up. His career in politics was fantastic. His own wife once said that if it were up to the women voters alone, he would have no trouble winning any election. And the men of the country ( Continued on page 88)
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