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...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...
...indictment of Gaston B. Means for trying to swindle Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean of $35,000 to be used in exchange for "hot" ransom money paid to kidnappers in the Lindbergh case (TIME, May 16, 1932): conviction in the District of Columbia Supreme Court of Means and Co-defendant Norman T. Whitaker...
...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...
...late Publisher Frank Andrew Munsey scrapped seven Manhattan dailies during his career. *The estate of the late John Roll McLean owns also the troubled Washington Post, now in receivership. The Post's publisher, ousted last year, was John McLean's extravagant son Edward Beale ("Ned''). Last week "Ned's" estranged wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, in hope of buying the Post for her three children, was trying to raise $250,000 on her jewelry, including the "unlucky," Sunday-supplement-famed Hope Diamond...