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Banker Tinker ("Ned" to friends) has a big place on Long Island's Jericho Turnpike where he raises pheasants and other birds but seldom shoots them. He is a director of Transamerica, Barnsdall Corp., Curtiss Wright, Sinclair Consolidated Oil, Knox Hat Co., Long's Hat Stores, Kaskell & Kaskell, U. S. Hat Machinery Co.. White Motor Co. and several others...
...page of silly questions and answers by "Uncle Ned, the Answer...
...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...
Explained Ned to newsmen afterward: "I wanted to protect the children. I did not want to let go of the paper. It did not occur to me until two days ago that a sale of the Post would throw about 300 men out of work...