People, Aug. 16, 1954

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

At 9:14 on a sunny morning in Reno, Barbara Jievute Paulekiute Sears ("Bo-bo") Rockefeller, excitedly chomping gum and convoyed by nine lawyers (only seven hers), two bankers and a pressagent, walked into a judge's chambers. Fourteen minutes later, she emerged as a new proof of an American dream story. After six years of marriage (her second), nearly five of separation, sporadic salvos of parting shots, Bobo, blonde, 37, was no longer the wife of Winthrop Rockefeller, 42. Her record settlement jackpot: $2,000,000 in cash,...

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