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...Maryland McCormick, wife of the Chicago Tribune's Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick and writer of a weekly column for the Trib and Washington's Post and Times-Herald, had what seemed like a stroke of bad luck. Laid up with bronchitis, she could not get around to scout up subjects for her column, passed the time talking to her upstairs maid, who has worked in the household for more than 30 years. The result was a lively column about Prime Minister Churchill, when he was the house guest of Anglophobe Colonel McCormick 25 years...
...breakfast washed down with sherry, had a massage, started on Martinis at 1, and capped them with "a bounteous lunch" at 1:30, drank cocktails or sherry from 5 until dinner at 8, "lots of champagne at dinner," then brandy, and worked until 3 or 4 a.m. Wrote Columnist McCormick: "The colonel is a fair trencherman himself, but the Englishman's capacity amazed...
...McCormick reflected that "much water has run over the dam since then. The colonel's ideas . . . are far different from those of his former guest . . . But are their ideas so far apart? If Churchill were in the service of our Government, would he not be called an isolationist...
Almost overlooked in the heat of these arguments was a farsighted proposal by Outgoing President Edward J. McCormick. Doctors, he advised, should stop charging what the traffic will bear and set up schedules of average fees in each area or region. "The time has passed," he said, "when the medical profession can predicate a fee on a patient's salary, or whether he is in a private room or a ward, or lives 'on the hill' or in more modest residential surroundings...
Died. Anne O'Hare McCormick, 72, Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times commentator on foreign affairs and (since 1936) the first woman member of the Times's governing editorial board; of cancer; in Manhattan. Born in England, reared in Ohio, she made numberless trips to Europe (often with her husband, a Dayton importer) for first-hand interviews. A writer of clear, unexcited prose, she cut through much of the nonsense in her field, constantly urged the U.S. to treat its allies with consideration and develop its foreign policy from strength...