Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the magazine is only semi-attached to the Associated Harvard Alumni, this official alumni organization did help bail the Bulletin out of the libel suit. The Bulletin is no longer a virgin in its relations with the University either. It occupies Wads-worth House (the small yellow, frame building next to Lehman allH) rent-free...
...Bulletin still has only $160,000 to pay all the cost of the 17 issues published each year. With its tiny staff, the magazine manages to finish in the black most years. 1966-67 won't be one of them though; the Bulletin had to settle a substantial libel suit for calling a Hollywood movie director a "Stalinist type...
Williams first made major news in 1953 by winning the first successful libel suit against Columnist Drew Pearson ($50,000 for former Assistant Attorney General Norman Littell). As his reputation grew, he constantly upbraided the Government for stooping to seamy means in order to conquer seamy defendants. He sprang Costello by showing that the U.S. prosecutor had secretly scanned the tax returns of 150 venire-men to get a "goldplated" jury in the gambler's tax trial. In the 1956 perjury trial of ex-OSS Lieutenant Aldo Icardi, who told a congressional subcommittee that he had not murdered...
...start in that direction, Powell announced that proceeds from a forthcoming book and a long-playing record album-both entitled Keep the Faith, Baby-would be used belatedly to pay off his longstanding $164,000 libel judgment against a Harlem widow. As far as his House colleagues are concerned, however, any attempt by Powell to cleanse his past may be offset by his verbiage on the recording. Assailing his congressional opponents as "Judases" and "hypocrites," Powell compares his fate to Caesar's, at one point cries: "Et tu, Brute?" Even for Manny Celler's committee, such histrionics...
Powell is a Congressman without a constituency, for the minute he goes back to his New York City district he risks being clapped in jail under contempt of court sentences, which total 16 months and spring from his failure to pay a libel judgment to a Negro widow. That and his alleged gross misuse of committee funds for his own enjoyment were the reasons for his disbarment. The action was as unexpected as it was unprecedented. Not in the 56-year history of the House's seniority system had a committee chairman been sacked for any sin other than...