The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-20
MCCORMICK REPORTED
TO BE FULL OF "PEP"
Millionaire Reported to Be Rapidly
Recovering from Unusual
Operation.


Chicago, June 20.-Equipped with
the elixir OF youth, Harold F. Me-
Cormick ordered arrangements rush
ed Yesterday for his romantic trip to
Europe with his daughter Mathilde.
From his bed at Wesley Memorial
hospital, where life-giving glands OF
youth were reported to have been
Itransplanted into his body. the mil
,ionaire harvester king directed plans
which will take him to Paris within
a month.
There. after seeing his 17year-old
daughter and ward Mathilde. safe
ly married to Max 0ser, her Swiss
lover, he will be free to wed the
beautiful Gamma Walska, Polish opera
star.
Mccormick recovery from the op-
Grafton, performed at midnight last
Monday in a secluded walled and
guarded wing of the hospital, has
been rapid.
Physicians feared for time that
his recovery might be retarded some
what by the anger showed when he
learned that reports about the ma
ture of the operation had become
pub ic.
So anxious was Mccormick that
no publicity be-giyen to the opera
tion that he is reported to have OF
fered to triple the fee Of DR.. Victor
ID. Lespnasse. noted gland specialist
in case no word OF the surgery leak
ed out. The agreement was under
stood TO call for the payment Of
$4,000 in case the secret of the op
Grafton was kept.
High pitched voice and angry
words were heard coming from thC
Mccormick suite during confer
ence with Or. Lespinasse and hospi
tai officials after the patient reaC
Sunday papers containing alleged de
tails of the operation.
, Guards around the hospital and II
front of the Mccormick door wer'
doubled
/, Four men were constantly OF
1 guard in the corridor leading to thu
! Mccormick room. Other guards wer,
= stationed under windows and arount
the hospital at frequent Intervals,
3 A rigid investigation was starte'
3 by hospital authorities to determine
/. how word of the mysterious secre
midnight operation reached newspa
pers. Nurses and internes wer
y quizzed closely,
Hospital authorities have been abl
to conceal all information regarding
the youth who sold his glands Il
\ Mccormick, So carefully was hi
lident'ty kept that only DR.. Lesp
nasse and his most trusted nurse a.
/. slstant knew anything of the ident
ty of the youth
During the operation, the opeI
ating room was divided by part
= tion with one set of nurses and II
l. ternes with Mccormick on one sid
e and another group of nurses and II
I. ternes on the other with the under
1. tilted man.
n McCormick's object In undergon
II the operation at this time was col
n siderable Of mystery to his clos
3. friends. He Is strong, virile and a.
r. tive.
If lie is a vlce.pres dent OF The 30
Scouts and recent " at Scout col
vention here, turned 10 handspring
for the edi6cat'on of the boys.
Mccormick. 81, was believed
y. have been advised by physicians
r. undergo the operation now while L
was well able to stand the ordeal. q
stead of waiting until he was old,
y and weaker.
- Mccormick, according to friend
b desires to live to be 100 years of az
y In this he emulates his wealthy 10
- mer father-in.law, John d. RockefC
= er who for many years has dor
- everything possible to prolong h
"a life.