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Edith Rockefeller-McCormick, mother of the groom, an extraordinary lady who eats from gold plates and indulges a fancy for advanced psychology and a faith in the real estate operations of two friends, Krenn & Dato. From her castle-home on Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, she sent word through her secretary that "she had nothing...
James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., eldest son of the bride, who married a servant at his family's fishing camp at Grand Anse, Que., three years ago. In 1921 he and the groom, longtime friend of the family, searched for evidence to aid Mrs. Stillman defend herself against her husband's divorce suit. Last week he was unable to leave his studies at Harvard Medical School, did not witness his mother's marriage ceremony. But his wife was her mother-in-law's maid of honor...
...Percy Rockefeller, sister of James Stillman, whose husband is a cousin of the groom. In other words Mrs. Stillman's onetime sister-in-law becomes her cousin by marriage...
Last week's story as it was developed through three front-page days was anything but a scandal: it was an idyl. Bride & Groom motored from courtroom to a cottage on the ocean at East Hampton, L. I. Thither, eventually, came troops of newsmen, including many oldtime baiters of the Bride, to receive polite and smiling welcome. For eight long hours, the honeymooners entertained the Press. As they posed on the beach, on the cottage steps, in the hammock, the Bride jollied her old acquaintances. One remark: "Perhaps I have a vulgar taste. I've gotten...
What gave the story its clear and happy atmosphere of romance was the engaging personality of the Groom. "Yes," he smiled, "I proposed by telephone last summer." All kinds of people have entered Fowler McCormick's heterogeneous life and he remains a romantic. When very young he intimately associated with the folk in his father's and mother's Chicago Civic Opera Company (now Samuel Insull's). He left Groton School to drive an ambulance in France. Returned to the U. S., he was popular at Princeton. Encouraged by Mrs. Stillman, he went to Milwaukee...