Word: evalyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marriage Revealed. Mamie Reynolds, 22, daughter of North Carolina's late Senator "Buncombe Bob" Reynolds (no relation to the tobacco family), heiress to a $35 million share of Grandmother Evalyn McLean's gold-mine and newspaper fortune (Washington Post, Cincinnati Enquirer); and Joseph Gregory, 39, Kentucky dog handler; she for the second time; in Juarez, Mexico; last month...
...Cross, and Master Swindler Gaston Bullock Means, to whom she reportedly paid at least $100,000 in 1932 for the source of threatening letters sent to her and signed "Agents of Moscow" Means was never tried for defrauding Mrs. Shepard; he had already been indicted for cheating Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, owner of the Hope Diamond, of $104,000 for promising to return the kidnaped Lindbergh baby. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, died after...
Married. Mamie Spears Reynolds, 20, daughter of North Carolina's late Senator Robert Reynolds, who at four inherited $10 million from her grandmother Evalyn Walsh McLean;* and Luigi Chinetti Jr., 20, partner with his father, a onetime auto racer, in the U.S. Ferrari franchise; in Manhattan...
...Great Act. It was after he got out of jail that Means staged the greatest act of his career. In 1932, the Lindbergh-baby kidnaping sent the nation reeling with shock. The fat, dimpled charlatan got in touch with Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean,* owner of the famed Hope diamond and estranged wife of the Washington Post publisher. She was a friend of the Lindberghs, and of course would be overjoyed if she could help find the baby. Just leave it to me, said Smiling Gaston. All he needed to turn the trick was $104,000 ($100,000 for the kidnapers...