Word: mcevoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. J. P. McEvoy, 63, writer, world-roving editor for Reader's Digest; of a stroke; in New City, N.Y. Stocky, jaunty Joseph Patrick McEvoy wrote everything from Burma-Shave signs to Broadway shows (Allez-Oop, Stars in Your Eyes), from novels (Show Girl) to the story line of the comic strip Dixie Dugan. A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses. He went on to write short stories, radio and TV scripts, and scenarios for Hollywood, where he said he picked up "one stomach...
...depressing as any other Teamster hearing but there was more to it than met the ear; Lawyer John McClellan, nettled by reluctant witnesses, was hard at work trying to define some legal limits on the capricious use of the Fifth Amendment. Beck Junior and his kissing cousin, Joe McEvoy, who was next up, had overworked a new wrinkle in abuse of the Fifth. When Beck would refuse to answer questions on such matters as his occupation or salary, McClellan would ask if he "honestly believed" his answer would tend to incriminate him. Beck would not reply with...
Donol Hedlund, a respected and influential Seattle mortgage banker, flushed deeply, swallowed hard, spun the saddest yarn of all. With Joseph McEvoy, the nephew of Beck's wife, and one other associate, Hedlund established the National Mortgage Co., thanks partly to the $35,000 contribution from Uncle Dave to McEvoy. Then Hedlund, Beck and Teamster Lawyer Simon Wampold organized an outfit called the Investment Co., which drew brokerage commissions on Teamster money invested by Beck. Through the mortgage company, Beck put a tidy $9,000,000 in Teamster funds into mortgages, and through this company, Beck's family...
...voice. His nephew, Charles Thieriot, 39, was taking a more active interest in the Chronicle as boss of the paper's TV station, and his younger brother, Ferdinand Peter Thieriot, 32, was on the job as a circulation executive. The biggest stockholder of all, Nan Tucker McEvoy, 33, George Cameron's niece (and wife of Reader's Digest Editor Dennis McEvoy), was also taking an interest in the Chronicle, where she has worked off & on as a reporter. Newsmen had suspected that as their interest grew, Editor Smith would have had more & more trouble running things...
Your Nov. 19 story of the tragic death of my friends Freddy and Claude McEvoy is not correct in all its details. They were married in the garden of the Windsor Hotel in Nassau. I performed the ceremony, and the best man was John Perona of El Morocco, with Mrs. Duncan McMartin as matron of honor...