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Divorced. Ganna Walska, Polish-born would-be opera singer; by Harold Fowler McCormick. chairman of the executive committee of International Harvester Co.; after a ten-minute hearing; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion. Mme Walska had lived in Chicago rarely since their marriage in 1922, not at all since 1929. Reported property settlement: more than $2,000,000, including one-fourth of Mr. McCormick's holdings in International Harvester Co. From the late Alexander Smith Cochran of Manhattan, her third husband, Mme Walska received $3,000,000 when he died...
Every U. S. newspaper publisher knows that competition with a Hearstpaper on weekdays is one thing, on Sunday something entirely different. And no publisher knows it better than Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose Chicago Tribune nearly doubles Hearst's Herald & Examiner in weekday circulation, but comes second on Sunday. Like any other competitor of Hearst, Publisher McCormick had not far to look for the reasons: 1) the famed Hearst Sunday comic increased last week to 16 pages; and more important 2) the gaudy Hearst Sunday magazine section, The American Weekly, which boasts "Greatest Circulation in the World...
...McCormick has always tried to keep the skirts of his Tribune free from sensationalism. Nevertheless, circulation is circulation, and the Sunday Tribune had lost more than other Sunday papers: the first seven months of this year its average was 88,000 less than its average for the same period last year. Colonel McCormick decided to test the circulation winds with a straw. With utmost secrecy a Sunday magazine section was made up, printed in four colors. Very gingerly last week the first issue, called The Graphic Weekly, was sent out with the Sunday Tribune, but only to readers beyond...
Many a reader of the McCormick-Patterson tabloid New York Daily News, like many a reader of any newspaper, skips the editorials. But one day last week the News's editorial column was calculated to arrest the most cursory eye. On it appeared the picture of a pudgy male, clad only in underdrawers, squatting Gandhi-fashion at a spinning wheel. The body was the body of any corpulent, middle-aged man but the head was the head of Herbert Hoover...
Married. Muriel McCormick. 29, daughter of Harold Fowler McCormick (harvesters), granddaughter of John Davison Rockefeller; and Elisha Dyer Hubbard, 53, wealthy "farmer" of Middletown. Conn.; at Deep Cove. Maine, summer home of Miss McCormick's good friends Mr. & Mrs. George Alexander McKinlock of Chicago, who were the only witnesses...