Word: mcleans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Chicago court last week Mrs. Abbott demanded: 1) separate maintenance from her husband, whom she accuses of peccadillos (as did Mrs. McLean); 2) removal of her ailing husband as publisher because she asserted he was letting the paper go to ruin through neglect (as did Mrs. McLean). There the analogy ends...
...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...
...Texas newsman, Bascom N. Timmons, said to represent either Publisher Amon Giles Carter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram or Eugene Lorton of the Tulsa World, opened the bidding at $250,000, the minimum set by the court. At $300,000 Mrs. McLean's lawyer, Nelson Hartson, chimed in. Then Lawyer Geoffrey Konta, for William Randolph Hearst. Up, up the bidding soared to $600,000, mounted again when Lawyer Hartson went inside to consult Mrs. McLean. Sadly she told him to withdraw. "I think $600,000 is all it's worth," she said. Presently the auction narrowed...
...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...