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...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...
Engaged. Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, 57, of North Carolina; and Evalyn Walsh McLean, 20, daughter of diamond-bearing dowager Evalyn Walsh McLean. The Senator has been married four times...
Died. Edward Beale McLean, 55, onetime publisher of the Washington Post, buyer of the famed Hope diamond; near Baltimore. He bought the diamond for a rumored $154,000 in 1911, gave it to his wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, mining heiress (Father Struck It Rich). In the early '20s they entertained spectacularly in Washington, were cronies of President Harding and his Cabinet members. Adjudged insane in 1933, McLean died in a sanatorium. His will, made in 1931, left $300,000 to Cinemactress Marion Davies' sister, Rose, for "her association and affection"; $5,000 to each of his three children...