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...newest trade territory of McCormick & Co., Inc., largest wholesale spice dealers in the U.S., was beginning to sprout orders. Six ex-G.I.s sent into the rich Chicago area early this month had hired more World War II vets, and the whole crew was hot after new business...
Back in Baltimore, Charles Perry McCormick, tweedy, confident, 50-year-old president of McC & Co., read their reports in the Olde English decor of the firm's head office, and was happy. Reasons : 1) after five years of war, spice shipments were on the move again; 2) the firm's sales of Bee Brand products this year were expected to top $12 million, do better still in '47; 3) the Chicago expansion-and indeed all the company's post-1932 successes-could be laid directly at the door of his own Multiple Management policies...
...star of one of the gamiest divorce suits of the '20s, turned out to have died deep in debt. Stillman and wife "Fifi" charged each other with offside parenthood-she by an Indian guide, he by a chorus girl. She got the divorce, promptly married Harvester Heir Fowler McCormick. A New York estate tax appraisal last week: Stillman owned $875,745, owed $1,079,539. Notable debt: $362,848 to the four Stillman children for their support...
...Trib, whose Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick acquired some of his imperfectly assimilated education in the British public schools, answered in an editorial that Mr. White was the victim of "inspired propaganda," probably emanating from the British Foreign Office. Added the Trib: "Calling us names . . . has made us the best known newspaper in the world. We have succeeded the Times of London in that respect...
...current road company, starring Neil Hamilton as candidate Matthews, is being groomed for Chicago, and the Windy City, excepting residents Robert McCormick and Ed Kelly, will love it, though there is reason to believe that they may appreciate its marital irregularity (sex always does well on the Midway) more than its political liberalism...