Word: mcleans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington society is dissected under a chapter entitled "Boiled Bosoms" with the Gann-Longworth and McLean-de Ligne feuds recounted (TIME, Dec. 15 et ante, May 13, 1929). Tittle-tattle: Bachelor Senator Tydings of Maryland playing "footie" with sedate ladies; Mrs. Trubee Davison, wife of the Assistant Secretary of War, smoking a pipe; Daisy Harriman trimming Senator Walsh's walrus-like mustache...
Died. William L. McLean, 79, onetime Pittsburgh newsboy, publisher since 1895 of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin; of old age; in Germantown, Pa. Lest it bias his editorial views he would have no business interest but his paper. He saved big headlines for big news, shunned premiums as circulation boosters, was first to distribute newspapers by automobile...
...what about the expected bid of Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, estranged wife of the Post's Publisher Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean? Fortnight ago she had halted the proposed sale to Lawrence on the ground that the newspaper should be preserved for her three children. The other trustees of old John R. McLean's estate were, meanwhile, itching to complete a profitable sale of the unprofitable daily...
...final hearing opened last week, one of the trustees began speaking in favor of the Hearst offer. He had not gone far when a lawyer for Ned McLean interrupted, told the court that Ned had changed his mind. He did not want to sell the Post after all. The other trustees expostulated, asserted that if money continued "to be poured into the Post, the estate of John R. McLean will become a mere myth." But by terms of his father's will, Ned's lone veto was sufficient. The sale...
...McLean, Va., a six-ft. snake bit 17-month-old Percy Crosby...