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...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...
...Post is a stablemate of the Hope diamond in the sense that it has been dangled as an ornament to its owner. In fact it has been said that the McLeans were credited with three social attributes in Washington: their huge estate, '"Friendship"; the Hope diamond (variously evaluated from $114,000 to $2,000,000) and the Post. The Post and Cincinnati Enquirer were part of the vast estate left by his father John R. McLean, who made a fortune in natural gas. But Ned's father had so little confidence in him that all real control...
...Sunday-supplement lore, the Hope diamond is "accursed." When the McLeans' firstborn, Vinson Walsh McLean, was killed by an automobile, gum-chewers promptly accepted the tragedy as further proof of the diamond's "curse...