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Used to seeing and deciphering typographical errors, few newspaper readers know precisely how they come about. Characteristic mistakes in news texts are transposition ("amy" for "may," "ear" for "era") and substitution ("bottle" for "battle," "love" for "live"). Printing of "slays" for "slaps" once resulted in a $50,000 libel suit against the Telegram (TIME, June 9). Such errors are caused by a finger-slip of the linotype operator, whose typesetting machine has a lower-case keyboard arranged in this manner...
...established it in Manhattan in 1845 "to assist the operations of the police department . . . by publishing a minute description of [felons'] names, aliases and persons. . . ." The exposures started with policy gambling (now a thriving operation in most large Negro centres) and stopped at nothing. Violence and threats of libel alike failed to stop the editors. The Gazette dealt in harsh detail with one John B. Gough, temperance lecturer, whom it claimed to have found intoxicated in a Manhattan brothel. It pilloried a Mrs. Ann Lohman-"Mme. Restell, the female abortionist." It had scant sympathy for Albert Deane Richardson, shot...
...religious, both these powers of the Press have investigated the Prohibishop boldly, intimately. Last week, with his spiritual trial in Virginia yet to stand, Bishop Cannon turned sharply on one of his observers. He sued William Randolph Hearst, personally, for $5,000,000 for "false, scandalous, defamatory and malicious libel...
...belated dedication is not necessarily a reflection upon the dead but a dedication grudgingly extended is a compliment neither to the dead nor to those who participate. . . . Now the American people have never been swayed by the lip of libel or the tongue of slander. . . . The foam of falsehood will soon cease to scare the timid or ambitious. . . . It would cheapen the memory of a man, most deserving, to importune anybody to do his memory a simple justice."* The association re-elected its officers: Calvin Coolidge, honorary president; one-time Senator Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, president; Secretary...
...dares republish the charges of Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican senatorial nominee in Illinois, against the Senate Slush Fund Committee may be prosecuted for "wilful and malicious libel." Notice to that effect was served last week upon the Press by Senator Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota, the committee's chairman, and three of his colleagues (New York's Wagner, Washington's Dill, Vermont's Dale. Missouri's Patterson did not sign the edict...