Word: ginzburg
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Time and again, in response to such questions from defense attorneys, Publisher Ralph Ginzburg and Editor Warren Boroson, of the now defunct magazine Fact, replied with an unqualified no. Both men insisted that their 1964 article depicting Barry Goldwater as a paranoiac, a latent homosexual and a latter-day Hitler, was simply fair comment on a presidential candidate's fitness for office (TIME, May 17). It was of no importance, they claimed, that only 20% of the psychiatrists they polled had even bothered to answer their admittedly loaded questionnaire. Nor did it matter that more than half of those...
...jury disagreed. Apparently convinced that Ginzburg had demonstrated both malice and a reckless disregard for the truth, it awarded Barry $50,000 in punitive damages from the magazine, $25,000 in punitive damages from Ginzburg-and $1 in token compensatory damages from Fact, Ginzburg and Boroson...
...some of the major finds of contemporary Soviet letters. Among them: poems from Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago in 1956, a year before the novel appeared in the West, and a transcript of the 1966 Sinyavsky-Daniel trial. Grani also printed excerpts from the now-famous memoirs of Eugenia Ginzburg, Journey into the Whirlwind (TIME, Dec. 1, 1967), an account of life under Stalinist terror...
...burden of proof is still with Goldwater, and his side has not yet tried to demonstrate that Ginzburg entertained serious doubts about the truth of what he was publishing. Indeed, many uninvolved lawyers who have dropped in to watch (and there have been an unusual number) do not see how Goldwater can possibly win. Even if he should, they point out, the appeals court might well overturn any verdict in his favor...
...Ginzburg was previously the publisher of Eros, which folded when he was convicted of sending obscene material through the mails and sentenced to five years. Two years after Goldwater filed suit, Fact also stopped publication. Ginzburg now puts out Avant-Garde (TIME, April...