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Vice President of the Post is the publisher's wife, Agnes Elizabeth Meyer, one-time staffmember of the New York Sun. Meanwhile Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, who wanted the Post but was outbid by Publisher Meyer, announced that on July 4 she will start a new Washington paper, a morning tabloid named the Enquirer. Mesdames Meyer and McLean already have stiff feminine competition in energetic Mrs. Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson, editrix of Hearst's Washington Herald...
Such Negro readers of the "white" Press as were aware of the troubles of ex-Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post and Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean last week found vague analogy in the adventures of their own most famed publishing family. No. 1 Negro publisher is capable, courteous Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 62, founder-owner of the Chicago Defender ("World's Greatest Weekly")* and Abbott's Monthly, only Negro fiction magazine. Like Publisher McLean he is a loyal Republican. His wife, Mrs. Helen Thornton Abbott, who says she thinks she is 36 but is not certain...
...third floor of the building sat Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, estranged wife of the Post's ousted Publisher Edward Beal ("Ned") McLean. She wanted the paper for herself and her sons. Nervously she fingered the "unlucky" Hope diamond at her throat, as the bidding began outside on the front steps...
...indictment of Gaston B. Means for trying to swindle Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean of $35,000 to be used in exchange for "hot" ransom money paid to kidnappers in the Lindbergh case (TIME, May 16, 1932): conviction in the District of Columbia Supreme Court of Means and Co-defendant Norman T. Whitaker...
...troubled Washington Post, whose difficulties have been made conspicuous by the adventures of its onetime publisher Edward Beale McLean and his estranged wife, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, last week was ordered up for auction by a court. Anyone offering $250,000 may bid, but bids of less than $500,000 must be in cash. It was supposed that Mrs. McLean would bid with cash raised on her jewelry, including the highly publicized, "unlucky" Hope Diamond. Debts of the Post...