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After five months spent covering nearly all of Europe, able New York Times-woman Anne O'Hare McCormick last week returned to the U. S. keynoting "the imperturbable optimism of Great Britain, which worries less than any nation on earth." That plenty of Britons were deliberately taking a humorous view of the European Crisis was a major fact in London last week. In the House of Commons, however, more seriousness was in evidence. In awful dignity the Prime Minister arose and spoke. "I do not deny," came Neville Chamberlain's solemn admission, "that my original belief...
Headed by John T. Dolan '39, the dance committee includes John F. Casoy, Jr. '38, Randall Richards '38, John Grindle '39, Robert Fulton '40, Chester G. Ormond '38, Thomas E. McCormick '40, Vincent Hurley '40, James R. Dowd '40, John J. Whoriskey...
Engaged. Guy Stillman, 19, son of Chicago's Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman McCormick and Manhattan Banker James Alexander Stillman; to Nancy Holbrook, 17, of Barrington, Ill. In 1920 Banker Stillman filed divorce papers against his wife, charging that Guy's father was an Indian guide, Fred Beauvais, but lost the suit...
Married. Susanna Winslow Perkins Wilson, 21, well-dressed daughter of Paul Caldwell Wilson and Mrs. Wilson (better known as Madam Secretary Frances Perkins); to David Meredith Hare, 21, Manhattan color photographer; in Manhattan. The groom's best man was Medill McCormick, son of Illinois' onetime Representative, Republican Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, and grandson of Mark Hanna. Among the bride's guests at the church were New York's Democratic Representative Caroline O'Day and Mrs. James Aloysius Farley...
...summer of 1911, a frail, 50-year-old spinster named Harriet Monroe began knocking on the doors of wealthy Chicagoans, trying to get 100 of them to pledge $50 annually for the support of a magazine of modern verse. Charles Deering, Samuel Insull, Cyrus McCormick, Charles & Rufus Dawes came in; Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck stayed out. By June, 1912, she had more than 100 signatures on her five-year pledges, an income of more than $5,200 a year for her magazine...