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FATHER STRUCK IT RICH-Evalyn Walsh McLean-Little, J5rown...
Bret Harte might have written the story of Evalyn McLean. This tale of a prospector's daughter whose father struck it rich would have been just his ticket. But he would have fictionalized it, added some homespun sentiment; and he would have stopped the narrative before it became too true to be funny. Evalyn Walsh McLean tells her own story (with the ghostly aid of Boyden Sparkes) with no regard for her readers' feelings. She simply sets down the blatant facts, and though the facts are increasingly adorned with pearls and bristling with diamonds, she never succeeds...
There was someone else her parents did not want her to marry, and that was young Ned McLean. The McLeans, who owned the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer, had struck it rich a generation or so before the Walshes. Even Evalyn could see that Ned McLean was pretty thoroughly spoiled. But "he was a dear when he was sober. . . . When he was not spree-drinking he often led a most exemplary life; he loved to play with horses and dogs, and concerning golf he became, eventually, so keen that he hired a leading professional to teach him." So, after...
Beside the student committee there is also a faculty committee appointed from University Hall. The three men on it are: Raphael Demos, assistant professor of Philosophy and tutor in the Division of Philosophy and Psychology, William S. Ferguson, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, and Jeffries Wyman '23, assistant professor of Zoology and tutor in the Division of Biology...
...part, the prosecution introduced witnesses to show that the motives and methods of Charles Joseph Margiotti were above reproach, that the Inquirer had maliciously defamed him. When it came to charging the jury last week, Judge William S. McLean Jr. announced, among other things, that the Inquirer's article was privileged-i. e., the paper was entitled under Pennsylvania law to inform the public in full about Mr. Margiotti's activities as lawyer and Attorney General, so long as the information was true, unless the jury believed that the publication was maliciously made. After more than 28 hours...