Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sports pages of U.S. newspapers few holds are barred. Sportswriters swing freely when criticizing the performance of athletes, managers and promoters, rarely worry about libel suits. Last week this free-swinging confidence was rabbit-punched in a libel suit against the Hearst Publishing Co. and its Los Angeles Examiner sports columnist, Vincent X. Flaherty. Two years ago Flaherty fell to reminiscing, in print, about the fight in 1941 when Heavyweight Lou ("Cosmic Punch") Nova lost by a six-round technical knockout to Champion Joe Louis. Wrote Flaherty: "The cowardly [appearance of] Nova was like a frightened, screaming child at vaccination...
...umbrage at Flaherty's column. "When I read this article," said he, "I was completely sick. My friends were aghast . . . Since the article [appeared], doors have been closed in my face." Nova threw a counterpunch at Flaherty; he filed a $200,000 libel suit against him and the Hearst Publishing...
...that his "cosmic punch" and his well-publicized visits to Yoga Expert "Oom the Omnipotent" were the result of a pressagent's imagination, but he was certainly not a coward. To prove it, Nova's lawyers read into the record a story written after the fight by Hearst Columnist Bob Considine, who said that he saw Nova stand up and take 21 punches after his first knockdown. Syndicated Columnist Henry McLemore had also written about the 21 punches, but his testimony in the trial did not help Nova; he conceded he could not even remember being...
Nevertheless, after three hours of deliberation, the jury decided that the word "cowardly" was too strong to describe Nova's performance against Louis, awarded Nova $35,000 in damages. As Flaherty and the Hearst lawyers prepared an appeal, sportswriters shuddered at the dampening effect the decision might have on their own prose. For his own part, Lou Nova had seldom received such bad press notices as he did in this rare moment of real victory. Not a single U.S. daily or wire service reported a word about the trial or Nova's victory in court...
...obvious that Harriman will be a presidential candidate if Stevenson isn't. The latest indication was that last month Gov. Harriman joined Sen. Humphrey in buttering up the Hearst newspapers. "Ave" appointed Hearst Corporation President and McCarthy's great pal, Richard Berlin, to the Saratoga Springs Commission. The job is unimportant and unpaid, but there is some honor attached to it. Words fail me to express my dismay and disgust at such hypocrisy. Has Harriman so quickly forgotten what happened to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. when he lost his liberal support by playing up to its enemies...