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During the past decade no U. S. families have appeared more sensationally in the nation's newspapers than the McCormicks of Chicago and the Stillmans of New York. Last week, both families made one big story. At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Mrs. Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman, 52, obtained an amazingly secret divorce (grounds: infidelity) from James Alexander Stillman, 60, onetime president, now director and largest stockholder of National City Bank. A few hours later Mrs. Stillman married, at Pleasantville, N. Y., Harold Fowler McCormick Jr., 32. These were the glittering names which the news conjured...
John Davison Rockefeller, astute nonogenarian with potent holdings in National City Bank, who reputedly advised the younger Stillman to resign the institution's presidency because of scandal ten years ago. Grandfather of the groom, he kept to his home in Pocantico Hills, N. Y., sent his blessing...
Harold Fowler McCormick, father of the groom, now married to Ganna Walska. In Chicago he said: "I have known for some years of Fowler's unwavering devotion to Mrs. Stillman and of his desire for this outcome, and I have known, too, of her deep regard for him. . . . Basing my thought on what I know of them both, I not only hope but truly believe that they will find in this marriage lifelong contentment and comradeship...
...year's summer cruise, under the requirements of the Harvard Department of Naval Science, will leave the port of Boston on June 20, according to an announcement made yesterday by, Captain B. B. Wygant, the head of the department. They will be the guests of the United States destroyer Stillman, and will make a three-week voyage to Bermuda as part of the vessel's crew, returning to Boston on July...
...Norton Professorship of Poetry was endowed by the late C. C. Stillman '98, in memory of Professor Charles Eliot Norton. By the terms of the endowment, the incumbents are to be chosen, without limits of nationality, from men of high distinction and preferably of international reputation. In the administration of the gift, the term "poetry" is to be interpreted in its broadest sense, including, together with verse, all poetic expression in language, Music, or the fine arts, under which term architecture may be included...