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On the eighth day there was an even better sign — a plume of smoke was spotted rising from the steamy jungle near a small village south of the Eilander River. Rockefeller asked that helicopters be immediately rushed to the area. Two days later this hope was dashed. The smoke came from brush burning in the jungle. Even the finding of a second empty gasoline can and a water bottle didn’t help lighten the Governor’s gloom. More than 10.000 natives and the reinforced Dutch air and sea force had been engaged in the greatest search operation ever staged in the New Guinea area. But their efforts — and Rockefeller’s prayers — were in vain. One afternoon Michael’s father spread his son’s papers out on the lawn. He went through the notebooks and letters carefully. These were all that remained of Michael’s ambitions, dreams and work. Before he and Mary left New Guinea. Nelson Rockefeller thanked everyone for the help they had given him, and then he added in a voice that was weary and scarcely above a whisper: “If I had to do it all over again, I would still permit Michael to make this expedition. One can’t do anything in life without some risk. He was never happier than when he was in West New Guinea. He is creative and has a love of people. . . .” That was the first time the Governor had used the past tense in speaking of his son. As he left New Guinea and flew over the treacherous sea and jungle which had swallowed up his son, he said, “A miracle can happen, and perhaps it will.” While his plane was winging its way homeward, the Governor did not know it yet, but a miracle had happened back in the United States. From President Kennedy to the man in the street, messages of sympathy and consolation had poured into the Rockefeller home. He was no longer the villain, a man involved in a divorce action: he was a helpless man, a father who had lost a son. Now by a crazy twist of fate — a twist that he would have gladly given his whole political career to undo — he had regained the sympathy and support of the American people. He regained the public’s favor, hut he lost his son. It may be cruel but it happens often, this quirk in human nature. If an American hero seems to stray from the path his public expects him to follow, he is condemned, he is ostracized. Then if he suffers, he is forgiven. It happened to Bill Talman. When he appeared in court three months after his arrest, the case was thrown out for lack of evidence. But he didn’t get his TV job back. His wife sued him for divorce and he was in desperate financial distress. That’s when public sympathy switched in his favor. Letters flooded CBS asking to have him back, and Raymond Burr outdid Perry Mason in pleading on Talman’s behalf. Finally, after a nine-month absence — and untold suffering — Bill was restored to his job — and to public favor. Bob Mitchum had paid his debt to society, but it wasn’t until he fought back at another charge made against him — a false charge — that he regained complete public acceptance. A scandal magazine claimed he had stripped off all his clothes at a dinner party given by Charles Laughton, sprinkled his nude body with ketchup and announced he was masquerading as a hamburger. Mitchum lashed out. “They finally did it to me. Why that story? There’s not an ounce of truth in it.” Then he filed suit against the magazine. The fans believed Bob and showed their support by plunking down money at the box office again. Once more Mitchum was riding high. Arthur Godfrey’s fans took him back into their hearts after an operation that nearly took his life. In a delicate five-hour operation, doctors removed a malignant tumor from Arthur’s chest. The night after this surgery was completed, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital received thousands of calls asking about his condition. He was sent 130.000 pieces of get-well mail from men. women and children all over the country. The sufferer forgiven Ingrid Bergman’s return to public favor began when she suffered her most severe heartbreak. She wanted her daughter Pia to visit her in Italy, and finally petitioned the Los Angeles Court for permission. But when thirteen-year old Pia was called as a witness, she told the judge, “I don’t love my mother. I like her. I love my father. I don’t want to go to Italy.” That was the turning point for Ingrid. In her moment of deepest despair the public forgave her. The forgiveness was complete when Rossellini became involved in a love affair with Sonali Das Gupta, the Indian mother of two sons — an affair that led to his and Ingrid’s divorce. Soon after that Ingrid won an Oscar for her performance in “Anastasia.” Susan Hayward’s moment of extreme suffering and subsequent forgiveness occurred on April 25th, 1955, when she phoned her mother in the early hours of the morning and sobbed, “Don’t worry. Mother. You’ll be well taken care of.” Her mother called the police and they raced to the actress’ house. They broke down the door and found Susan unconscious on the floor. Upstairs they found two empty bottles of sleeping tablets. She was rushed to North Hollywood Hospital, then transferred to Cedars of Lebanon. There she regained consciousness. Maybe the wires from her fans helped. The very people who had turned against her at the time of her divorce action now were praying for her recovery. Sophia Loren’s acceptance by the fans took place, like Bob Mitchum’s, on the day she fought back against her tormentors. Braving a possible jail term for herself and her husband, she returned to Rome to testify at bigamy proceedings brought against them. She was there, she said, because she wanted to experience the “joy of having a baby,” the baby whose birth she and Carlo were eagerly awaiting. But shortly afterwards the final blow was struck: She lost her baby. She had been vilified, criticized, accused. Now she had lost the one thing in the world she wanted most. The whole world sympathized. Frank Sinatra’s story? His and Ava Gardner’s loss of their child and his own near loss of his voice due to a throat 90