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...Blake, all on the same basic motif: nude man in supplication before a female angel. Each was signed "In Verehrung gewidmet"-dedicated in adoration-"Edwin Krenn, Arch. 1920." The vultures' eyes gleamed. Little Edwin Krenn, Swiss architect, Chicago real estate promoter, was the adoring friend of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick. The plates were etched in Zurich, seven years after he met his benefactor, and they had been sent over to the rummage shop with a load of Mrs. McCormick's lesser belongings. The etchings went fast. The price rose from $2 to $3.50, and soon after reporters...
...Died. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, 59, daughter of John Davison Rockefeller: of cancer of the liver; in Chicago...
After pausing for two weeks at the door of a bedroom in Chicago's Drake Hotel, last week Death came, as it must to all women, to Edith Rockefeller McCormick. Once she was called the world's richest woman. But cancer makes no distinctions. Two years ago she had a growth removed from her breast. It reappeared in her liver. When she moved to the Drake from her mansion on Lake Shore Drive in June (TIME, Aug. 1), she and her doctors knew the end was near...
...estranged too, and querulously jealous of his own health at 93, Father Rockefeller had not gone to see her at all. "He travels only between Florida and his home," John D. Jr. explained. In her last days, with the flesh fallen from her face and the death mask showing. Edith Rockefeller had come to resemble her father closely...
...near to royalty as it is possible to come in the U. S. was Edith Rockefeller when, in 1895, she married that most handsome and eligible of contemporary Princetonians, Harold McCormick. The newspapers called her the Princess of Standard Oil. He was the Prince of International Harvester. She was a demure little blonde, with a high forehead, grey eyes and a mass of ringlets under her hat. She swam, skated, rode a horse and bicycle, but preferred to read and study. The newspapers wrote of a regal wedding but actually it was a quiet, private ceremony in a parlor...