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...left the Depression-ridden South and moved to Washington, D.C., where he established himself on a wooden platform on F Street between 12th and 13th Streets. He joked and chattered and begged for his living. Women shoppers often took pity on the legless panhandler, and one of them, Evalyn McLean, owner of the Hope diamond, gave him a capuchin monkey named Gypsy. It did tricks for what Bernstein called his "clients...
...teachers, the students take their theory back to the neighborhoods by working as teacher assistants, community liaison trainees and the like. Of last year's 100 freshmen, only 16 dropped out, mostly for lack of adequate day care for their children. Typical of those determined to graduate is Evalyn Shaw, a black woman who dropped out of school after the ninth grade and is now over 50. As a C.H.S. sophomore, Mrs. Shaw helps spur high school students toward college and personally hopes to become "the Grandma Moses of education...
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...