Word: cochran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summary: HARVARD TUFTS Morse, Ernst, l.f. l.f., Grinnell Merry, Comfort, r.f. r.f., Kavanaugh, Yagian Boys, Comfort, r.f. c., Woodworth, Rogean, Lewis Ferriter, Grady, l.g. l.g., Cochran, Yavarrow Fletcher, Henderson, r.g. l.g., Harris...
HARVARD TUFTS Merry, l.f. r.f., Kavanaugh Comfort, r.f. l.f., Grinnell Boys, c. c., Rogean Fletcher, l.g. r.g., Cochran Ferriter, r.g. l.g., Woodworth...
...succession of marriages began. Baron Archadie d'Eighnhorn, a Russian officer, was Husband No. 1. She divorced him for drunkenness in 1914, married Dr. Julius Fraenkel, a famed New York endocrinologist who died in 1919. Husband No. 2 sent her spirit messages, she said, to marry Alexander Smith Cochran, carpet tycoon, whom she met aboard boat with Harold Fowler McCormick...
...Cochran carpets beat International Harvester that cruise. McCormick bet Cochran that he would meet Walska first. He lost. But when he got back to his Lake Shore home in Chicago it was announced that he and Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick were no longer living together. Alex Cochran and Walska lived briefly together in his Murray Hill home. Then in 1920 divorce proceedings started. Madame Walska, with Dudley Field Malone for her lawyer, issued a statement that ''if he [Cochran] wants to get rid of me he must pay until it hurts for his own good...
...Cochran settlement amounted to $3,000,000 and Walska went to Havana to sing. Harold McCormick heard her there, appreciated her if the Cubans did not, invited her to sing with the Chicago Grand Opera which he was then backing. Her debut was to be in Zaza but at rehearsal Conductor Giuseppe Gino Marinuzzi threw down his baton, threatened to quit the company. McCormick stood up for Walska, demanded that she should be allowed to sing. But in the excitement Walska disappeared. Not once did she ever sing with the Chicago Opera...