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...officer, was Husband No. 1. She divorced him for drunkenness in 1914, married Dr. Julius Fraenkel, a famed New York endocrinologist who died in 1919. Husband No. 2 sent her spirit messages, she said, to marry Alexander Smith Cochran, carpet tycoon, whom she met aboard boat with Harold Fowler McCormick...
Cochran carpets beat International Harvester that cruise. McCormick bet Cochran that he would meet Walska first. He lost. But when he got back to his Lake Shore home in Chicago it was announced that he and Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick were no longer living together. Alex Cochran and Walska lived briefly together in his Murray Hill home. Then in 1920 divorce proceedings started. Madame Walska, with Dudley Field Malone for her lawyer, issued a statement that ''if he [Cochran] wants to get rid of me he must pay until it hurts for his own good...
...directors: Mr. Cummings; John Quincy Adams. Iowa land owner: Samuel Thomas Bledsoe, president of Santa Fe: Edward A. Cudahy Jr., packer: Reuben G. Danielson, the bank's cashier; Edward Landsberg. president U. S. Brewing Co.; Judson F. Stone, McCormick estates: Willoughby George Walling, president of the Personal Loan & Saving? Bank. Among those retired: George McClelland Reynolds. Charles W. Nash, Robert Wright Stewart. Dennis Francis Kelly, George Fulmer Getz. Frederick Tudor Haskell...
...Chicago, at her greystone Lake Shore Drive palace and in Lake Forest, Ill. at her country home, Villa Turicum, the rest of Mrs. McCormick's private belongings were to go on sale next week. Auction gapers in Chicago were discouraged by a $10 admission fee, redeemable on the first purchase...
...same Manhattan gallery where Mrs. McCormick's relics were being dispersed last week another sale of even greater interest to book collectors and professional patriots was being held. Assembled from various owners was an important book collection. There were second, third and fourth folio Shakespeares, Mary Baker Eddy's own copy of Science and Health, a Kelmscott Chaucer and a number of letters from Warren Gamaliel Harding and Thomas Jefferson. But the prize item was No. 264, an Italian leather frame holding a yellow sheet of paper, the original autograph manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner...