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...McLean v. The Record. Rich and social is Edward Beale McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, famed as owner of the Hope diamond, and as a friend of the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding (TIME, March 10, 1924). Last week he sued the Philadelphia Record, a Democratic daily, for one million dollars damages on account of libel which Plaintiff McLean described in his declaration as "false, wicked, malicious, scandalous and defamatory." This he did because, said he, the Philadelphia Record did wickedly contrive and falsely and maliciously intend to bring him (McLean) into public disrepute and "to cause...
What, then, caused Publisher McLean's Washington Post's editorial discourtesy to the Belgian Ambassador, Prince Albert Edouard Eugene Lamoral de Ligne? What moved Friend of Belgium Herbert Hoover to ask the Prince de Ligne to a small dinner as a special mark of esteem? Publisher McLean said he did not. And that being so, President Hoover's courtesy to the Prince was not, said Plaintiff McLean, a "squelching" of Publisher McLean-as the Philadelphia Record had said...
...McLean v. de Ligne. Two men were involved in the other rumpus of the week. The Belgian Embassy, an ornate white stone mansion at 18th street and Massachusetts avenue, is now occupied by His Highness Prince Albert de Ligne. One morning last month His Highness was shocked, enraged, at the sight of a splurgy front-page story in the Washington Post in which his recall to Belgium was "definitely forecast." The newspaper said...
...Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Post was among the Prince de Ligne's guests at an Embassy dinner last month. As everyone knows, the Belgian Embassy, like many another, is wet. At the dinner table Mr. McLean dined well, very well, too well. He was distressed. He requested the Prince's assistance. The Prince gave it-and asked his publisher-guest to leave the party. The Post's outbursts ensued...
Score--St. John's 12, Harvard 2. Goals--Thomsen 4, Pool 2, Hoff 2, Cross 2, Ziegler, and McLean, Johnson and Glenn. Referee--J. Slingluff of Johns Hopkins. Time--Two 30-minute periods...