Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suit of two sisters who had sued a Tuscaloosa radio station for digging up a story about their father's disappearance in 1905. "The right of privacy is supported by logic and the weight of authority," said the court, but in the face of "legitimate public interest" it has to give...
What news isn't of "legitimate public interest"? No newsman could give a final answer. The New York Times is decently mum on many a scandal that the hard-eyed New York Daily News delights to mock and maul. In the current American Mercury, Chicago Lawyer Mitchell Dawson tries to fix the legal boundary between privacy and the press. Actually, says he, the right of privacy is neither ancient nor inalienable. It was formulated no longer ago than 1890, by Louis Brandeis, later Supreme Court Justice, and his law partner, Samuel D. Warren, in a magazine article prompted...
...states have held "that a mari is entitled to redress for the unauthorized appropriation of his name or picture for trade purposes. But . . . the publication of news is not a trade purpose. No one can stop the use of his name or photograph if they are matters of public interest, no matter how much it hurts...
...Yorker for rediscovering him in his clerkly obscurity with ', "Where Are They Now?" piece. The court granted that Sidis' privacy had been invaded-but threw out the case because, as Sidis had been a person in the public eye, the story still "possesses great reader interest...
...crusades (a current anti-pollution series is called Running Sores On Our Land), and hired a Washington correspondent to keep up with conservation news and legislation. As circulation rose, so did Ted Resting's salary; at 32, he gets $25,000 a year and is buying a stock interest (eventually...