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Most people liked the late Bill Fallon, but not even his bitterest friend ever called him unco guid. Author Fowler has put this sensationally journalistic biography of the lately dead (1927) Manhattan lawyer into the form of a novel; it reads like a super-Sunday-supplement-story...
Divorced. Ganna Walska, Polish-born would-be opera singer; by Harold Fowler McCormick. chairman of the executive committee of International Harvester Co.; after a ten-minute hearing; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion. Mme Walska had lived in Chicago rarely since their marriage in 1922, not at all since 1929. Reported property settlement: more than $2,000,000, including one-fourth of Mr. McCormick's holdings in International Harvester Co. From the late Alexander Smith Cochran of Manhattan, her third husband, Mme Walska received $3,000,000 when he died...
Married. Muriel McCormick. 29, daughter of Harold Fowler McCormick (harvesters), granddaughter of John Davison Rockefeller; and Elisha Dyer Hubbard, 53, wealthy "farmer" of Middletown. Conn.; at Deep Cove. Maine, summer home of Miss McCormick's good friends Mr. & Mrs. George Alexander McKinlock of Chicago, who were the only witnesses...
...Henry Fowler, chief mechanical engineer of the London Midland & Scottish Railway Co., was motoring to Derby to work. At an intersection a police officer stopped the car momentarily, then beckoned it on. Sir Henry and the officer nodded cordially. It was his son George, a Cambridge undergraduate, who is working as a constable during his vacation. Explained his father: "Start in Scotland Yard? Certainly not! He is starting at the bottom as an ordinary uniformed policeman...
...shoe factories here but I have never been able to buy a pair of shoes and neither has anyone else I know. We pay $7.50 a pound for butter and $1.25 a quart for milk." Dean of the U. S. colony at Irkutsk is former U. S. Consul Fowler who has lived in Russia for 30 consecutive years, likes the country...