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...Among famed amphibian owners were : Lord Beaverbrook, who had two ; the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert McCormick, who brought his plane in for repair, smashed it so badly on landing he had to buy a new one; Motorboat Racer Gar Wood...
Married. Paulina Longworth, 19, granddaughter of T.R., only daughter of the late Congressman Nicholas and Alice Roosevelt Longworth; and Alexander McCormick Sturm, 21, precocious humorist and book-illustrator (The Problem Fox, From Ambush to Zig-Zag); in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass...
Last week a new series of dispatches from Rome revealed another veteran U.S. political reporter on the job. They came from Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times, who probably knows from of old more about Italy and the rest of Europe than any of her competitors. Revisiting many an old friend, she has found Italians hungry ("For the first time in Rome an American feels a little uncomfortable before the hungry eyes of the inhabitants"), eager to regain self-respect and self-government, but resigned to paying "in humiliation, impoverishment and a long status of probation...
First & Only. Plump, greying Anne McCormick, born in England, reared in Dayton, Ohio, began acquiring European background on trips abroad with her husband, Francis J. McCormick, a Dayton importer. In 1921 she became a free-lance contributor to the Times, soon landed a fulltime, roving job. She was one of the first reporters to spot Mussolini as a coming leader of Italy...
...duty in Rome, Mrs. McCormick shuns correspondent's uniform, but also suppresses her yen for exotic hats. She lives in the Grand Hotel with the rest of the Times staff, where she rubs elbows with senior Allied officers, high Italian political and social figures. As one correspondent remarked, "She looks as though she ought to be home minding grandbaby or puttering around in the garden, but you change your mind when she starts talking...