Word: evalyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FATHER STRUCK IT RICH-Evalyn Walsh McLean-Little, J5rown...
Bret Harte might have written the story of Evalyn McLean. This tale of a prospector's daughter whose father struck it rich would have been just his ticket. But he would have fictionalized it, added some homespun sentiment; and he would have stopped the narrative before it became too true to be funny. Evalyn Walsh McLean tells her own story (with the ghostly aid of Boyden Sparkes) with no regard for her readers' feelings. She simply sets down the blatant facts, and though the facts are increasingly adorned with pearls and bristling with diamonds, she never succeeds...
...Evalyn's father, Thomas F. Walsh (not to be confused with Montana's late Senator) was an Irish immigrant who drifted to Colorado, left his carpenter's trade for prospecting. He ran a store in Deadwood, owned Leadville's most respectable hotel during the boom there. Evalyn's mother, known to Leadville as "a rather refined lady" because she changed the name of one of her husband's strikes from Sowbelly Gulch to St. Keven's, had gone West to be a schoolteacher. Evalyn was born in 1886, can still remember...
...good time and become real ladies & gentlemen. That was easy. Father built an $835,000 house on Massachusetts Avenue, entertained lavishly, tipped right & left. When they went abroad King Leopold I of Belgium was his pal, tried, unsuccessfully, to interest Father in a little proposition in the Congo. Writes Evalyn: "It makes me happy to remember now that, after years and years of hard knocks and worry, my daddy was so quickly recognized, when he had riches, as more than just a man with gold." He had a lot of Government bonds...
Vice President of the Post is the publisher's wife, Agnes Elizabeth Meyer, one-time staffmember of the New York Sun. 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...