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Last March, reading a full-page ad in the New York Times, L. (for Lester) B. Sullivan, 39, police commissioner of Montgomery, Ala., decided that the Times had done him wrong. Sullivan had not even been mentioned by name; the ad was an appeal for funds to defend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Southern Negro leader, against charges of income-tax evasion. Nonetheless, Sullivan sued for libel, seeking $500,000 damages against the Times and four other defendants. Last week in Montgomery, a circuit court jury gave Lester Sullivan every dollar he asked...
Meter Beater. In Montgomery, Ala., Ernest Brooks explained to the judge, "I was looking for a parking place," after being hauled in for sideswiping 24 cars in a 30-block area...
...Newhouse likes to be a bit off handed about his press purchases. Ex plaining that his son Donald, who is pub lisher of the Jersey Journal (circ. 93,998), also oversees Newhouse papers in Birmingham and Huntsville, Ala. and in Portland, Ore., Newhouse says of his Post deal: "Denver makes a nice stop on the way from Alabama to Portland." Be that as it may, Sam Newhouse picked up a slice of a famed newspaper...
...Advance, Jamaica (N.Y.) Long Island Press, Newark Star-Ledger, Long Island City Star-Journal, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Post-Standard and Herald-American (Sunday), Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot and News, Jersey City Jersey Journal, Portland Oregonian, Birmingham News, Huntsville (Ala.) Times, St. Louis Globe-Democrat...
Born. To Wernher von Braun, 48, German-born rocket expert, who in 1958 led the Army team that put the U.S. back into the space race, and Maria von Quistorp von Braun, 31: their third child, first son; in Huntsville, Ala. Name: Peter Constantine. Weight...