Word: evalyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. James Maitland ("Jimmy") Stewart, 41, lanky, bashful filmland Galahad (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Strait on Story), wartime Air Forces colonel and bomber group commander; and Mrs. Gloria Hatrick McLean, 31, onetime daughter-in-law of the late Evalyn Walsh ("Hope Diamond") McLean; she for the second time; in Los Angeles...
...managed to duck matrimony through a full decade as Hollywood's "Most Eligible Bachelor," finally announced his engagement to Divorcee Gloria Hatrick McLean, 31, mother of two and onetime daughter-in-law of the late Evalyn Walsh ("Hope Diamond") McLean...
Small (5 ft.), swarthy Harry Winston, one of the leading U.S. diamond dealers, thus took possession of his biggest buy this year - the famed gem collection of Washington's onetime No. 1 hostess, the late Evalyn Walsh McLean. As usual, he had shipped it to himself by mail (postage: $159.87, including the cost of registering and insuring...
...quite two years after her death, executors of the estate of Washington Hostess Evalyn Walsh McLean asked court permission to sell some of her $591,107 worth of jewels so they could pay debts and taxes. Among the baubles: the fabled Hope Diamond, once spoken of in terms of millions, now appraised at $176,920. Last week's new figures also indicated that the McLeans bought it on credit in 1912 for $100,000 ($20,000 down, $1,000 a month...
Perle Mesta's parties are neither so fancy nor so noisy as Mrs. Evalyn McLean's, so exclusive as Mrs. Truxtun Beale's, so smart as Mme. Bonnet's at the French embassy. Her menus are adequate but not sumptuous. At the Alben Barkley dinner last week, the 24 guests had turtle soup, filet of beef, peas, browned potatoes, aspic salad, and a rum-and-ice-cream dessert...