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Married. Ganna Walska d'Eighnhorn Fraenkel Cochran McCormick, 45, Polish-American opera singer, perfumer, feminist, whose four previous husbands had owned fortunes totaling $125,000,000; to Harry Grindell-Matthews, 57, inventor of the "death ray," which knocked out a cow 200 yards distant at its first British War Office tests; in London. The bride went on her honeymoon alone, while the investor rushed to his Clydach, Wales laboratory (fenced with electrified wire) to perfect an aerial torpedo...
Twenty years ago Walska's determination to be a singer was her principal claim to distinction. She was a poor Polish girl studying in Russia when her celebrated 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...
Ganna Walska d'Eighnhorn Fraenkel Cochran McCormick, assertive Polish second wife of Chicago's harvester tycoon, Harold Fowler McCormick, has three passions: Music, Perfume, Feminism. For Music she has labored many a weary year without spectacular success. For Perfume, she has founded and guided to success Ganna Walska Perfumes, Inc., of Paris and New York. For Feminism she gained a victory last week when the Third Division of the U. S. Customs Court unanimously conceded her a legal residence other than that of her husband...
Ganna Walska d'Eighnhorn Fraenkel Cochran McCormick last fall entered the U.S. bringing 15 trunkfuls of personal effects which she valued at two million dollars. She declined to pay duty, on the ground that she was a nonresident U.S. citizen whose home is in Paris. Unsympathetic customs officials impounded her baggage, declaring that a wife's residence was with her husband, and that Harold Fowler McCormick lives in Chicago (TIME...
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