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...years ago Dr. White formed the "Committee for Safe Bicycling." Hoiyoke's Chamber of Commerce, backed by the Western Massachusetts Heart Association, responded to the committee's urging and prepared a circuit of trails around Ashley and McLean reservoirs. While the cyclists waited impatiently, the grand old man of American cardiology blessed the enterprise with a physiological text...
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...
...Including a share in the 44 Vicarat Hope Diamond, the historic "bad-luck" stone once worn by Marie Antoinette and supposedly possessed of an Oriental curse. Mrs. McLean's husband bought it in Turkey in 1911; he subsequently went insane, his eldest son was killed in a car accident, while Mamie's mother died at 25 of sleeping pills. The gem was sold in 1949 to Jeweler Harry Winston, who in turn gave it to the Smithsonian, "where," says Mamie firmly, "it belongs...
...found it all just too exhilarating. It was a compliment to his vast powers of persuasion that Mrs. McLean and the others never took into account his reputation; he could soften any skeptic merely by producing freshly embroidered lies with which he smothered older embroidered lies...
...After Mrs. McLean gave him the money, Means kept her supplied with startling bulletins. The kidnapers, he reported, were suspicious of Mrs. McLean and would not deliver the baby at the appointed time. He sent her to South Carolina, where an accomplice turned up, identified himself as "The Fox," and proceeded to scare the daylights out of her with threats of violence. Next he sent her-and a nurse she hired-to El Paso; the baby, explained Means, was being held in Mexico, and he himself had actually seen the child. But in El Paso, Means told her that...