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...losing money for years the Defender has picked up after its Depression slump and, according to its owner, is making a little money. According to the owner's wife it is worth $1,000,000. (Eugene Meyer got the Post last fortnight for only $825,000.) Fun-loving "Ned" McLean could not be bothered with business. Round-faced Publisher Abbott was kept from work by tuberculosis and Bright's disease. "Ned" McLean's woman friend was the sister of Film Actress Marion Davies. Mrs. Abbott says that two years ago she found her husband in bed with...
...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...
...imitative craze dies down. . . ." This smug bit of ballyhoo, by Major Albert Warner for Gold Diggers of 1933, would have sounded more sincere if Warner Brothers' current cinemusicomedy had been a less obvious copy of their earlier one. The casts-Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks-are similar. The narrative frameworks of both pictures-the inception and production of a Broadway show-are identical. This time the suspense is caused not by a chorus girl's big chance to be a star but by a mysterious young song writer (Dick Powell) in love with...
...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...
Music will be furnished by Ned Marshall and his Crimson recording Orchestra in an atmosphere of a German beer garden, complete even to the tall steins on the tables. The dance committee is as follows: H. W. Beaser '34, A. C. Denig '35, F. F. Friberg '34, A. C. McCabe '36, H. E. Roman '36, J. A. Weber '35, and S. L. Weker...