Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosecutors who had been assailed for mishandling the Amerasia case (although the report slipped lightly over the refusal of Amerasia Editor Philip Jaffe to testify for fear of possible self-incrimination). The report also urged a careful restudy of the principle of congressional immunity, which gave Joe McCarthy his libel-proof soapbox...
After disregarding one court order to appear for questioning, Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler turned up to talk things over with Quentin Reynolds' lawyer. Free-lance Writer Reynolds had brought a $500,000 libel suit (TIME, Dec. 12) against Pegler for calling him, among other things, a "fourflusher" and a "nudist...
Last week in the dark oak solemnity of a King's Bench courtroom, Mother Moo-moo's menu became the principal evidence in a libel action brought against Norcott and the Daily Mail by the proprietors of the real-life Moo Cow Milk Bars of London. Moo Cow Director Frederick Abdela, who told the court that he himself was often known as Mr. Moo, declined to see anything humorous about Norcott's article. It was, said Abdela, "a cynical and horrible criticism of a business which could only be taken...
...Libel in France. When Victor Kravchenko published the bestselling story of his career as a onetime Soviet bureaucrat, I Chose Freedom, a French Communist weekly called him a "liar" and a U.S. secret agent. Kravchenko sued for libel, and in a Parisian courtroom whose atmosphere often resembled a low-comedy brawl there was, nonetheless, enacted a deadly serious debate between the ideologies of two worlds. Largely because of impressive testimony given by a number of former inmates of Russian slave-labor camps, Kravchenko won his case and token damages of 3 francs. His second book, though ineptly written and frequently...
Miss Bentley repeated her allegations on a television program, where she no longer enjoyed Congressional immunity. Remington brought a $100,000 libel suit against Miss Bentley, the television company, and the program's sponsors, which was settled out of court last February for a "substantial...