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...matter of illusion. It is a little distracting to hear men dressed as French soldiers yearn for Paris and their native villages in honest New Yorkese. As the two most prominent of the condemned men, however, a pair of extremely credible performances are turned in by young Actor Myron McCormick, late of the Princeton Triangle Show, and oldtime Actor William Harrigan, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 307th Infantry, 77th Division...
Unlike many a U. S. tycoon, Cyrus Hall McCormick had a son and namesake who could fill his shoes. When Cyrus I died in 1884, Cyrus II became president of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., later president of International Harvester Co. Since 1918 he has been Harvester's board chairman. Last week, at 76. he retired...
Harvester's new chairman is Cyrus' younger brother, Harold Fowler McCormick, whose first wife was the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick. Later he married Singer Ganna Walska, whom he divorced in 1931. When Brother Cyrus retired to the board-chairmanship in 1918, Harold succeeded him as Harvester's president, held the office for four years, has since been chairman of Harvester's finance committee...
...Stutz stock for investment. He optioned it together with an additional block to a slick group of Chicago promoters now known as John J. Burke & Co. Burke in turn optioned the stock to other stock-jobbers variously doing business as Gould & Co., Kopald, Quinn & Co. and Kenyon & Co. (McCormick & Co. until SEC cracked down on them once before). These retail firms proceeded to sell Stutz stock to citizens of the Midwest on an installment plan, 50? on the dollar down. Meantime John J. Burke & Co. strong-armed Stutz stock in the open market from about $4 per share to more...
Artist Clara Thomas became interested in art by looking into some of her husband's books on falconry. She has since painted office walls for Vincent Astor, Percy Rockefeller, Robert Rutherford McCormick, William Ziegler, the royal suite in London's Grosvenor House. Mother of two children, 17 and 12, a fair, blue-eyed little woman with an even smile, she looks scarcely 30 at 40. She likes stag parties at which she is the only woman, rides well, works hard, hunts...