Word: ned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From Newport to Washington last week hurried Evelyn Walsh McLean, wearer of the famed Hope ("Hoodoo") diamond, estranged wife of Publisher Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean of the Washington Post. She went to the bedside of the irresponsible Ned, who had been laid low by myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart), but not just to smooth his brow. Her visit to the Capital had the two-fold purpose of fighting Ned's Mexican divorce, and fighting the proposed sale of the Post in the interest of her three children...
...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 was vested in trustees, lawyers, bankers, advisers. However, Ned had sufficient hand in affairs to make the Post the leading spokesman for his crony the late Warren Harding and the "Ohio Gang" (see p. 15). Then...
...hotel room paid for by his wife. Hetty Green raised a son and daughter, multiplied her nine million into 67, and in her last days was a strange old body in odd cloaks and shawls who lived in cheap flats with a Skye terrier named Dewey. To her son, Ned, she once gave a package of cancelled insurance policies, told him they were bonds and had him carry them to San Francisco to make sure he was efficient and trustworthy. Assured, she later gave him a railroad in Texas where, more neighborly but no less idiosyncratic than his mother...
Paul Madvig was the city boss; he had risen to the top of the pile by patience and "guts." But it was Gambler Ned Beaumont's brains that helped him out of many a tough spot. Beaumont did not like the idea of Madvig's supporting aristocratic Senator Henry, thought still less of Madvig's sparking the Senator's daughter Janet. When the Senator's son was found murdered, suspicion soon fell on Madvig, but strangely enough failed to wreck the political alliance between the boss and the aristocrat. Ned Beaumont was used to fishy doings. He said little...
Married. Leopoldine ("Polly") Elaine Damrosch, Manhattan Junior Leaguer, pianist, daughter of Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch and Mrs. (Margaret Elaine) Damrosch, granddaughter of the late great presidential Candidate James Gillespie Elaine; and Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Swords, They Knew What They Wanted, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Silver Cord), divorced husband of the late Clare Jennes Eames, U. S. actress who died two months ago in England (TIME, Nov. 17); in Manhattan. Ceremony was performed by the Rev. Frank Heino Damrosch...