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Small (5 ft.), swarthy Harry Winston, one of the leading U.S. diamond dealers, thus took possession of his biggest buy this year - the famed gem collection of Washington's onetime No. 1 hostess, the late Evalyn Walsh McLean. As usual, he had shipped it to himself by mail (postage: $159.87, including the cost of registering and insuring...
...quite two years after her death, executors of the estate of Washington Hostess Evalyn Walsh McLean asked court permission to sell some of her $591,107 worth of jewels so they could pay debts and taxes. Among the baubles: the fabled Hope Diamond, once spoken of in terms of millions, now appraised at $176,920. Last week's new figures also indicated that the McLeans bought it on credit in 1912 for $100,000 ($20,000 down, $1,000 a month...
...Washington's gilded, gaslight age, the cave dwellers (native Washington society) took over. The last of their queens were wealthy Mrs. John R. McLean, a Virginia lady of formidable presence, and her convivial, raucous daughter-in-law, Evalyn Walsh McLean, who died in 1947. Evalyn wore a diamond (the Hope) as big as a tiger's eye, and called men impartially "darlin' boy." At her crowded parties (at the old and new "Friendship"), men had to bring their brains with them; Evalyn delighted in pairing mortal enemies at dinner. Said an old friend, admiringly: "Evalyn had spite...
Perle Mesta's parties are neither so fancy nor so noisy as Mrs. Evalyn McLean's, so exclusive as Mrs. Truxtun Beale's, so smart as Mme. Bonnet's at the French embassy. Her menus are adequate but not sumptuous. At the Alben Barkley dinner last week, the 24 guests had turtle soup, filet of beef, peas, browned potatoes, aspic salad, and a rum-and-ice-cream dessert...
Married. Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean, 30, balding son of the late Washington Hostess Evalyn Walsh McLean; and Manuela Hudson ("Molly") Vanderbilt, 34, brunette first wife of Millionaire Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; he for the third time, she for the second...