Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less aggressive type than Longstreth, this might be considered a dubious honor. Dilworth is a vote-getter. An honored Marine veteran of both world wars (an arm wound in the Soissons drive of 1918, a Silver Star from Guadalcanal), Dick Dilworth is a successful Philadelphia lawyer, specializing in libel suits. He was elected city treasurer in 1949 and was a key man on the Democratic team that ousted the Republican machine from the city hall after 67 unbroken years of sodden rule. In 1951 he was elected district attorney...
When New York Mirror Editor Jack Lait and his Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer brought out their untidy, slapdash book, U.S.A. Confidential, they quickly became targets of half a dozen libel suits (TIME, May 19, 1952), based on the character assassination that helped make the book a bestseller. Biggest and most important was brought by Dallas' Neiman-Marcus store, which sued for $7,400,000 because Lait and Mortimer had written: "Some Neiman models are call girls . . . and the Dallas fairy colony is composed of many Neiman dress and millinery designers." Crown Publishers Inc., which published U.S.A. Confidential, promptly decided...
...Baltimore, District Judge Roszel C. Thomsen ruled that when the Washington Times Herald quoted from defeated congressional candidate Mark Hammett's political pamphlet the passage reading, "My general erudition, social punctilio and physical pulchritude are of the highest order," the paper did not libel Hammett in commenting: "Anybody want to go with him steady...
...group will also file a libel suit against the News early next week, which charges that the News "did falsely and maliciously state that only students of inferior status, initiative or character desired to receive copies of the said newspaper on Saturdays in New Haven...
...suits ask "standard damages" of one million dollars for the libel suits, and demands that the News refund one-sixth the subscription price to all subscribers and cease calling itself the "Oldest College Daily...