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Year ago the New Republic described bullocky Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl, onetime Nazi publicist, as "Hitler's boy friend." Last week Putzi, exiled in London, lost a libel suit against Selfridge & Co., department store which sold his secretary a copy containing the article. The judge, commenting, "Hanfstaengl will leave this court with as clean a character as . . . any man could have," ruled that nobody had libeled Putzi, assessed him the costs of the case...
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...Portland, Ore., Sports Editor Billy Stepp described racing greyhounds as "beetles," "pigs." An indignant breeder filed a $20,000 libel action...
...Ulysses. His autobiographical volumes, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street and Tumbling in the Hay, tell of his indiscreet youth, his love of laughter and low company, his delight in stories of his own and other people's misbehavior. One such got him into a libel suit which cost him ?900. But when Patrick Kavanagh, young Irish poet, published The Green Fool (TIME, Feb. 27), fun-loving Dr. Gogarty could not see the joke. In it Kavanagh told of visiting Dublin as a tramp with literary aspirations, calling on Gogarty: "I mistook Gogarty's white-robed maid...
...bought the Albuquerque morning Journal from Albert Bacon Fall and friends in 1920, Senator Fall with childish candor told him most of New Mexico's political secrets, incidentally confessed he was broke. With this information Lawyer Magee turned crusader, fought the Fall machine tooth & nail, was jailed for libel and mauled by political thugs, finally forced to sell his paper. It was a Magee telegram to Senator Thomas James Walsh concerning Fall's finances that made Teapot Dome a criminal case. By 1923 another Magee paper, the State Tribune, was foundering and Edward Wyllis Scripps went...