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Died. Harold Fowler McCormick, 69, reaper millionaire, Chicago opera angel; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Beverly Hills. Son of Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the revolutionary McCormick reaper, Harold and Brother Cyrus Jr. built their father's business into the world's biggest farm-equipment house, International Harvester Co. In 1895 he married John D. Rockefeller's daughter Edith, was divorced by her in 1921. Next year he married Singer Ganna Walska, whose opera ambitions he tried to realize without success. He withdrew his support from the Chicago Civic Opera Co. in the season 1921-22, divorced Walska...
Marshall Field's Chicago morning-paper-in-progress (TIME, Sept. 22) last week made important additions to its general staff for the Big Push-due to begin in mid-November-against Colonel Robert McCormick's Chicago Tribune, America First's Greatest Newspaper. The staff announced this week by Publisher Silliman Evans...
...Witt, fired three weeks ago (the second time in five years) from the managing editorship of the Washington Times-Herald. His qualifications: 19 years' Chicago experience with Hearst's now-defunct Chicago Herald & Examiner; a plugging talent for local news; five years' experience under Colonel McCormick's temperamental cousin Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, publisher of the Times-Herald...
Married. William Davey, stepson of Cyrus McCormick (reapers), son of Painter Randall Davey; and Roberta Storms Runyon of Chicago; each for the second time; in Santa...
...this was just a sign that Daughter Alicia is a member in good standing of the Patterson-McCormick family, a clan of determined individualists. From her paper it has long been plain that she is no isolationist, but as she says: "Father and I are still very great friends." They do not attempt to reconcile their editorial difference. ("We just don't talk about it.") Meantime she goes on reviewing books for her father's Sunday News. ("It gives me a chance to get a lot of reading done that I wouldn't do otherwise...