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...Washington Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean announced that Labor Leader John L. Lewis would be invited to her daughter Evalyn's Newport debut party, if & when she has one. Said the owner of the famed $300,000 Hope Diamond: "I am devoted to Mr. Lewis. Years ago father taught me to be sympathetic to labor. If the rich don't recognize labor they'll bring their house of cards down upon their ears...
Married. Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean Jr., 19, second son of bizarre Washington Socialite Evalyn L. Walsh McLean; and Ann Carroll Meem, 19, daughter of Washington Banker Henry Grant Meem; in Washington. Best man was Brother John R. McLean II, who married Agnes Pyne Bacon in Reno last April...
...Manhattan by a family which had been pawnbroking in England for five generations. One William Simpson or another has lent money to Steve Brodie, Boss Tweed, Commodore Vanderbilt and Tony Pastor. John L. Sullivan used to hock his diamond-studded championship belt at Simpson's for $400. Evalyn Walsh McLean pawned her Hope Diamond there to get the $100,000 Gaston Means swindled from her as ransom for Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. The present William Simpson, much harassed by squabbles in the business, recently got a new slant from the play You Can't Take It With...
Visible among the babbling throng of spectators were the 44¼-carat Hope Diamond and its wan owner, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Also on view were the New York Herald Tribune's fashionable chitchat columnist, Lucius Beebe; Ward Morehouse of the New York Sun; Dr. Kingsley Roberts, Manhattan Surgeon; Mrs. Paul T. Mayo of Denver, her sister Mrs. Stanley Harris of Washington, Mrs, William McKinnon of Paris, Eloise Staats of Greenwich, Conn., who raises horses on her Colorado ranch, and a host of other socialites. There was so much alcoholic garrulity in the packed house that the first...
Wearing her $300,000, 44½-carat Hope Diamond and six diamond bracelets, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean (Father Struck It Rich) revived her celebrated Washington New Year's Eve Party in honor of her son. John Randolph ("Jock") McLean, who will be 21 next month. Son Jock, his guest Patricia Ziegfeld. the late Florenz Ziegfeld's daughter, and 1.000 other merrymakers danced around to two bands in two ballrooms, drank 120 gal. of champagne. 55 gal. of Scotch whiskey...