Word: garlanding
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...Judy Garland, an aging Hollywood prodigy, brought suit against her employers, the Columbia Broadcasting System, last fall and unwittingly touched off a serious debate on freedom of the press...
...Miss Garland, suing for more than one million dollars in a combined libel and breach-of-contract action, introduced as evidence a column from the New York Herald Tribune, which reported an anonymous CBS official as saying that Judy was "known for a highly developed inferiority complex" and "did not want to work because something is bothering...
...Miss Garland took umbrage at these allegations that she was of an anti-social and possibly neurotic disposition and asked the Tribune's columnist, Marie Torre, to identify her source. Miss Torre refused in a pre-trial examination and later when called upon to do so by Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan, who thereupon cited her for contempt of court and sentenced her to ten days in jail. On appeal, the case went to the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which recently upheld Judge Ryan's decision. Indications are that the Supreme Court will now be asked...
Aside from a rather specious plea from Miss Torre that her evidence was of no importance to Miss Garland's suit, two points were raised in the appeal. The columnist cited what has long been considered a traditional newspaper privilege--the anonymity of confidential sources, as well as the freedom of the press clause of the First Amendment...
...press was begun by a pretty brunette who said no. The girl: Marie Torre, 34, middle-browed radio and TV columnist of the New York Herald Tribune. A federal court in New York City asked her to name the "CBS spokesman" she quoted as saying that Singer Judy Garland "doesn't want to work . . . because something is bothering her [and] I wouldn't be surprised if it's because she thinks she's terribly fat." The three-man U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the requested information was material and relevant in Singer Garland...