Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign, a University of Manchester study of the major London dailies showed that the biggest-circulation newspapers, the Laborite Daily Mirror and the right-wing Daily Express, gave election material less than 6% of their total news space. *Noting with approval that Churchill had himself won a $14,000 libel suit against the Sunday People (TIME, Oct. 22), Evelyn Waugh wrote in the Spectator last week: "No one who knows Mr. Randolph Churchill and wishes to express distaste for him should ever be at a loss for words which would be both opprobrious...
...legislative probing came at a troublesome time for Confidential. The latest circulation report (3,269,954) showed a drop of almost 200,000 since last June. The bimonthly faces four libel suits* for a total of $5,000,000. The California attorney general's office is considering steps to prosecute Confidential for criminal libel and distribution of lewd material. There was good reason to doubt that the klieg-lit legislators would effectively police bedroom journalism, or indeed should. In fact, by emphasizing the zeal with which the leer-and-smear brigade sifts its dirt, the senate hearings lent some...
William Clark of Princeton, N.J., yesterday filed a $150,000 libel suit against James Bryant Conant '14, President emeritus...
...other crimes that it charged were ignored by the local government. Three weeks ago Washington, D.C. dailies ran stories on the victory of Virginia Beach, Va. Publisher J. Willcox Dunn in his fight against the local Democratic machine. His Princess Anne Free Press won $65,000 damages-biggest libel award in Virginia's history-from a machine-owned opposition weekly that said Dunn "survived by lies...
...difficult medical terms. In the palm-strewn lobbies of Eastbourne's hotels, aged widows gossiped and fingered their heavily insured necklaces, and retired colonels humphed over the bad news from Egypt. But topic No. i was something none of their newspapers could say under Britain's strict libel and contempt laws: that the doctor may also have quickened the deaths of a dozen or more other Eastbourne patients...