Word: evalyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's gilded, gaslight age, the cave dwellers (native Washington society) took over. The last of their queens were wealthy Mrs. John R. McLean, a Virginia lady of formidable presence, and her convivial, raucous daughter-in-law, Evalyn Walsh McLean, who died in 1947. Evalyn wore a diamond (the Hope) as big as a tiger's eye, and called men impartially "darlin' boy." At her crowded parties (at the old and new "Friendship"), men had to bring their brains with them; Evalyn delighted in pairing mortal enemies at dinner. Said an old friend, admiringly: "Evalyn had spite...
Married. Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean, 30, balding son of the late Washington Hostess Evalyn Walsh McLean; and Manuela Hudson ("Molly") Vanderbilt, 34, brunette first wife of Millionaire Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; he for the third time, she for the second...
...Grandsons John R. ("Jock") McLean and Edward B. McLean, and Mamie Spears Reynolds, granddaughter of the late Evalyn Walsh McLean, Publisher McLean's daughter...
...appraisal of the estate if the late Washington hostess, Evalyn Walsh McLean exploded a popular myth. Her famed, traditionally unlucky, 44¼-kt. Hope Diamond, which Sunday-supplement readers had thought of as a $2,000,000 gem, was valued at $176,920 ($22,920 more than was paid...
...Evalyn Walsh McLean, Washington's late, free-handed hostess, turned out to have been a rather cautious grandmother. Her will distributed her estate (including the Hope Diamond) equally among her seven grandchildren-but it left plenty of time for everybody to thresh everything out (including the distribution of the 44¼-carat diamond). The divvy was not to be made until...