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.
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