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Left. By the late Harold Fowler McCormick, Chicago reaper millionaire: an estate of about $7,500,000. Half goes to his widow (his third wife, Adah Wilson), the other half is shared equally by his son and two daughters. Inheritance taxes take nearly half the entire estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 10, 1941 | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Died. Harold Fowler McCormick, 69, reaper millionaire, Chicago opera angel; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Beverly Hills. Son of Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the revolutionary McCormick reaper, Harold and Brother Cyrus Jr. built their father's business into the world's biggest farm-equipment house, International Harvester Co. In 1895 he married John D. Rockefeller's daughter Edith, was divorced by her in 1921. Next year he married Singer Ganna Walska, whose opera ambitions he tried to realize without success. He withdrew his support from the Chicago Civic Opera Co. in the season 1921-22, divorced Walska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...Reaper, ex-Governor of Texas, dies in a train for Monterrey, where his fiancée is waiting at the altar. Peter Bounty, sheriff, supervises detection en route, has a double murderer before arrival. Pretty good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in May, Jun. 9, 1941 | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...joint concerts with groups from other colleges, the orchestra will perform five chorals, among them being DeBussy's. "Blessed Damosel" to be played with Sweet Briar College; Nagle's "Solitary Reaper"; "The Artisan," by Harriet Ware; and the "Messiah," by Handel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orchestra Faces Heaviest Spring Schedule in 133-Year History | 3/1/1941 | See Source »

...Chicago Reaper Scion McCormick, one of many non-Okie notables "bogged down" in scenic, climatic New Mexico (TIME, Oct. 28), thanks for another appraisal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 18, 1940 | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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