Word: evalyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those to which the Trumans were invited-and went. By this week the schedule was settling down to a steady canter. The Vice President's office had three dates on the docket, but there were about five more in the offing. High mark was an invitation from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh (Hope Diamond) McLean...
Robert ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, 60, delivered his swan song looking jaunty and well-preserved in a loud-checked shirt and playboy bow tie. North Carolina's junior Senator, now the son-in-law of Washington's wealthy Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, had decided last spring not to seek a fourth term. Said Buncombe Bob: "I have often referred to myself as an isolationist. . . . I merely employed the term because those who attempted to smear us for trying to keep this country out of the war used that word. . . . We are winning this war. . . . Russia could not have...
...could do." With her column to produce daily (she is assisted by a ghostwriter), a heavy schedule of voluntary entertainment for servicemen, a movie (Weekend at the Waldorf) in the making, Author-Actress Maxwell commutes frequently between her Waldorf apartment and Hollywood, where she lives with Evalyn Walsh McLean and the Hope diamond. Having been at one time or other in her career a pianist, composer, vaudevillian, singer, music critic, impresario and hotel keeper, she now describes herself as homeless, without a possession in the world, and terribly busy. Fortnight hence, after the Dec. 7 premiere of her "beloved crony...
...entertainers: Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Ballerina Alicia Markova, Funnyman Danny Kaye, Songstress Judy Garland. Cinemactor Charles Boyer (reciting La Marseillaise), Elsa herself (playing the Star-Spangled Banner). Among the guests: blue-haired Internationalist Lady Mendl, red-haired Greer Garson, black-haired Authoress Anita Loos, cigar-ash-grey-color haired Evalyn Walsh McLean (with her Hope diamond...
Wisely, Buncombe Bob, happy in his fifth marriage (this to Evalyn Washington McLean, 21, the daughter of heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean), chose not to stand for re-election this year...