Word: evalyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Digging Sold by the town of Newport, R.I. for $11,370.64 in back taxes plus a dollar was Evalyn Walsh McLean's villa, "By-the-Sea." James O'Donnell, operator of a chain of Washington drugstores, got it for less than one-tenth of its assessed valuation. Mrs. McLean has not used it for years. Mrs. Herbert Shipman's mansion across the street, built at a cost of some $1,000,000, went begging at the same sale. Taxes due: $12,366.33. Now it belongs to Newport...
...this sad scene appeared John R. ("Jock") McLean, 26-year-old son of Washington's wealthy Evalyn Walsh Mc Lean, owner of the Hope Diamond. Softball-playing Jock McLean is also brother-in-law of North Carolina's Bob Reynolds-the 57-year-old "Fighting Bob" who married Jock's 20-year old sister Evalyn last October. Reynolds is chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, before which come all Army appropriations bills...
...Evalyn Walsh (Hope Diamond) McLean, famed thrower of famed Washington parties, bought a new District of Columbia estate for a rumored $150,000, began moving her things from "Friendship," which she has sold to the U.S. for a housing project. Said she: "I shall . . . keep on ... with the same old parties and the same old friends." She bought her new diggings, complete with elaborate formal gardens, outsize ballroom, marble-floored billiard room, and swimming pool from Alexander Kirk, U.S. Minister to Egypt...
Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, 57, and his 20-year-old bride, the former Evalyn Walsh McLean, returned to Washington from their honeymoon, both wobbly from a double siege...
Married. North Carolina's Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, 57; and Evalyn Washington McLean, 19, daughter of wealthy Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Washington. The bride's mother is owner of the Hope Diamond, traditional "bad luck" stone...