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Little Kelly Jean McCormick, the adopted daughter of Tacoma (Wash.) Psychologists Archie and Alma McCormick, was only 3½ when she came sobbing to her mother with an unusual complaint. Her closest friends, all aged five to seven, were learning to read and write, and bright (IQ 147) Kelly Jean wanted to go to school. "I'm so ignorant," cried she. "I can't stand it." The McCormicks decided that they would indeed send Kelly Jean to school-but not to any ordinary one. Their adopted son Jimmy, who also had an IQ of 147, had been...
Last May the McCormicks invited 20 parents of precocious children to a meeting, suggested that they band together to start a school of their own for pupils with IQs of 135 or over. They picked the name Adastra, which Alma McCormick loosely translates as "the sky's the limit." They leased a two-story house on Division Street, persuaded fathers to donate equipment and mothers to help with the secretarial work, finally opened last fall with 13 children aged 3½ to nine. By last week the McCormicks had enough children on their waiting list to assure them...
INVESTMENT FUND for small business, with half the money supplied by U.S. Government and half by private investors, is urged by American Stock Exchange President Edward T. McCormick. His idea is for a $500 million investment trust to buy stock in small business; he figures that once fund gets rolling, private investors would probably want to buy up the Government's half interest...
...Chicago Tribune, which long viewed the British monarchy with the beady-eyed vigilance of Paul Revere, was as throne-prone last week as the rest of the U.S. press. Washington Correspondent Walter Trohan summoned an echo of the late Colonel Bertie McCormick when he tut-tutted that the last British royal visit in 1939 "did help promote America's entry" into World War II. But the Tribune ran a front-page color cartoon showing a whiskered Uncle Sam smiling (regulars could not recall when Sam last smiled for the Trib) as he presented a bouquet to the Queen under...
...could have made big money easily. In 1920 he had an offer of $1,000 each for articles in Cosmopolitan, huffily turned it down because the editors told him what they wanted him to write about: "The Wife's Mental Place in the Home." In 1924 Colonel "Bertie" McCormick cabled Tribune Staffman George Seldes...