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Physically, the Murphys (and children) will live close to the Rockefellers, as their parents did for many years. The Murphy family has long had a comfortable summer house in Seal Harbor near the Rockefellers' place on Mount Desert Island, Maine. (As a boy, Dr. Murphy was a particular chum of Nelson's brother David, now board chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank.) About ten years ago, the Rockefellers sold Dr. Murphy 13 acres near their large estate in Pocantico Hills, up the Hudson River at Tarrytown, and Dr. Murphy built himself a handsome one-story house there in what might be described as Japanese modern.
Most of the year, the Murphys live in a comfortable brownstone town house on Manhattan's 64th Street, just around a couple of corners from the present Rockefeller apartment. James Murphy is at Buckley School, the two older girls at Chapin, Malinda at Central Presbyterian Nursery School, and no parent can do better than that.
Happy's lawyers simply described her as "deeply grieved." Tangible symbol of that grief, and of the optimism that preceded it, was the Rockefellers' addition of an entire children's floor—complete with playroom, nurse's quarters and library—to their Fifth Avenue apartment.