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...Meanwhile Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, who wanted the Post but was outbid by Publisher Meyer, announced that on July 4 she will start a new Washington paper, a morning tabloid named the Enquirer. Mesdames Meyer and McLean already have stiff feminine competition in energetic Mrs. Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson, editrix of Hearst's Washington Herald...
...Editrix Patterson (aside to Lawyer Konta): "Make 'em pay more...
...consult Mrs. McLean. Sadly she told him to withdraw. "I think $600,000 is all it's worth," she said. Presently the auction narrowed to a struggle between Hearst's Lawyer Konta and George E. Hamilton Jr., lawyer for an unnamed principal. Hearst's lively Editrix Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson of the Washington Herald, with which the Post would be merged if Hearst bought it, stood at Lawyer Konta's elbow, egging him on. Lawyer Konta...
...from her mother the society editorship of the polite. McLean-owned Enquirer* No party is held without her consultation months in advance as to date. An event scheduled against her advice is doomed to obscurity. Mothers and daughters may object to her domination, but not in her presence. For Editrix Devereux has at her command such social barbs as "She appeared encased in that striking green dress which has graced so many previous occasions." Last week came a climax in Miss Dev- ereux's professional life. The daughter of the Enquirer's Editor William F. Wiley -her boss...
...father calls himself Prince Ali Youssuf Ilma, played character parts on the Manhattan stage. Six years ago Miss Ilma won a $10,000 prize from Liberty for an article. "The Aim of the Modern High School Girl." Liberty last week said it had no record of that award. But Editrix Ilma's story continues: She went around the world, tried to visit her relatives in Abyssinia and to persuade Ras Tafari to appoint her his U. S. agent. Disorder in Palestine prevented. Home again Miss Ilma edited a pulp magazine, wrote fashion news in Cleveland, department store advertising...