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...great American disease, the appetite for color and form, for the picturesque and romantic at any price." By the hundreds, they fled the industrial turmoil and cracker-barrel esthetics of their native U.S. for the postcard châteaux and quaint peasantry of Europe. But Ohio farmers on McCormick reapers did not fit into pretty landscapes as nicely as Normans driving oxcarts; few artists returned able to apply lessons learned abroad to the U.S. scene. One who did was Frederick Childe Hassam, a robust Bostonian who translated impressionism from French into pragmatic American...
...University of Illinois, wrote reviews for Chicago's Journal of Commerce and the Chicago Sun before moving to the Trib. After one of her slashing assaults on the Chicago Symphony brought 200 complaining letters to the Trib in a week, Claudia offered her resignation to Publisher Robert R. McCormick. Said the austere "Colonel": "Two hundred letters to the music department! You keep on writing," and he gave her a raise (she now earns about...
...clerical discount" demeaning. "I used to use a railroad discount," says the Rev. George Reck, pastor of Houston's Zion Lutheran Church, "but I always felt the conductor was saying to himself, 'Here's another chiseler.'" And chiseling can work two ways, suggests Father George McCormick of Trinity Episcopal Church in Miami: "When I'm offered a 10% dis count, I feel that the price has been jacked up 20% anyway...
PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Live TV entertainment, for a change, from Chicago's McCormick Place. Guest stars Richard Chamberlain, Diahann Carroll and the New Christy Minstrels will be performing at the annual convention of the National Restaurant Association...
Died. Marion Deering McCormick, 78, doyenne of Chicago society, heiress to a $120 million farm-machinery fortune (the Deering harvester, McCormick reaper), whose considerable philanthropies (Northwestern University, Chicago's Art Institute, Illinois Children's Home & Aid Society), gold-plated dinner parties and regal mien won her hands-down election in a 1954 Chicago Daily News poll to choose an "official" queen of the city's society; after a long illness; in Chicago...