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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...
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...
...Ganna Walska d'Eighnhorn Fraenkel Cochran McCormick, assertive Polish second wife of Chicago's harvester tycoon, Harold Fowler McCormick, has three passions: Music, Perfume, Feminism. For Music she has labored many a weary year without spectacular success. For Perfume, she has founded and guided to success Ganna Walska Perfumes, Inc., of Paris and New York. For Feminism she gained a victory last week when the Third Division of the U. S. Customs Court unanimously conceded her a legal residence other than that of her husband...
More than a year ago Mme. Walska landed in New York with 15 trunks and (she said) $2,500,000 of personal effects. Claiming that, as a separate human entity with a home and business in Paris, she was a nonresident, she refused to pay $1,000,000 in duties. Though her customs liability dwindled to $40.20 when she proved that she had bought most of her possessions in the U. S. before going to France, she fought with characteristic tenacity and much publicity for the principle involved (TIME...
Died. Alexander Smith Cochran, 53, of New York City, carpet tycoon, yachtman, onetime "richest bachelor," divorced husband of Ganna Walska (now Mrs. Harold F. McCormick); at Saranac Lake...