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Show F, wmM mm story SECRETARY OF BUSINESS LEAD-ER LEAD-ER STATES THAT STORY OF SEPARATION IS TRUE Mrs. McCormic', Daughter of John D. Rocefeller, Brands Story As' Absurd in Public Statement At Chicago Chicago Harold F. McCormick and his wife, the daughter of John D. Rockefeller, have separated, it was announced an-nounced at the millionaire's Lake Forest For-est home Monday. McCormick, who is head of the International In-ternational Harvester company, in n statement issued to the United Press through his secretary, definitely continued con-tinued rumors that have been afloat ever since Mrs. McCormick exiled herself her-self in Switzerland eight years ago. "Mr. and Mrs. McCormick are living apart," said the statement. "It is not known whether or not there will be divorce proceedings. No steps toward legal rction have been taken." The statement concluded, "Mr. McCormick Mc-Cormick has nothing further to give out." The secretary to John D. Rockefeller's Rockefel-ler's son-in-law then smiled. "I do not know where Mr. McCormick is now," lie said. "Perhaps I will not know all day." Mrs. McCormick in her last public statement, made Sunday, denied there hal been a brea'C with her husband. "Such talk Is absurd,' feiie saifi "We are very happy, iud.;ed." Muriel, the pretr.v );-.-ar-oId l. -tighter of the wealthy and socially prominent prom-inent family, s mi -r- too I to le with h : i-i ther. Mrs. McCormick, since she arrived here Sunday, has denied herself to several former close friends. . The socially prominent, whose palatial pala-tial homes line the "gold coast" North Shore drive were left to wonder whether Mrs. McCormick, In pursuit of her career, had renounced the position pos-ition she alone had the right to claim, dictator of Chicago society. Eight years ago, before Mrs. McCormick McCor-mick left for abroad, she shared the leadership in Chicago's upper set with Mrs. Potter Palmer. Since Mrs. Palmer's Pal-mer's death, Mrs. McCormick was entitled en-titled to the leadership. Social lights expressed their belief, when Mrs. McCormick returned, that "Chicago would be Chicago again," but when file news leaked out that several of Mrs. MeCormick's close friends had been unable to get to her, they believed i she might not reenter the social field, but give all of her time to her psychology psy-chology colony. Mrs. Fifi Stillman, center of the sensational sen-sational divorce wrangle with her millionaire mil-lionaire husband, James Stillman, is a close friend of the McCormicks. She recently took the "rest cure" at Lake Forest while both McCormicks were away. Muriel, the daughter, was the hostess. Muriel McCormick and Anne Stillman Still-man are bosom companions and are together to-gether either here or in the East frequently. fre-quently. Harold McCormick, Jr., is reported re-ported engaged to Anne, but there has been no announcement. Both daughters' actions under the circumstances of breaks between their parents are similar, it wsis pointed out by persons who know both intimately. Anne announced she had decided to "stick to mamma in her trouble." Muriel chose her mother, also. She came from the East with Mrs. Mccormick, Mc-cormick, as did Harold Jr., instead ol coming in the same party as her father. |