Business: Schroder Rockefeller

Day after John Davison Rockefeller turned 97 last week another Rockefeller also made news. He was Avery Rockefeller, 33, son of the late Percy Avery Rockefeller and grandson of John D. Sr.'s younger brother William. Along with two other executives, Avery Rockefeller resigned from Manhattan's J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp. to set up a new investment house called Schroder Rockefeller & Co. which will handle the underwriting and general securities business given up by the U. S. branch of the famed old London firm under the Banking Act of 1933.

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