Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Illinois, La Cosa Nostra exerts major influence in a dozen Chicago wards and dictates the votes of as many as 15 state legislators. Known as the West Side Bloc, a newspaper euphemism to avoid libel suits, the Mob opposes anticrime bills in the state legislature, forces gangsters onto the payroll of Mayor Richard Daley's Chicago machine, and corrupts the city police department. Salvatore ("Momo") Giancana may be hiding in Mexico, but his stand-ins, Tony ("Big Tuna") Accardo and Paul ("The Waiter") DeLucia still pack influence. Example: When a Justice Department report charged 29 Chicago policemen with being grafters...
...cops and demonstrators in Chicago inspired Vidal to call Buckley a "pro-crypto Nazi" and Buckley to reply: "Now listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto Nazi or I'll sock you in your goddam face." The blowup led Buckley to sue Vidal for $500,000 in libel damages and Vidal to countersue for $4,500,000. Esquire, entirely aware of the entertainment value of the squabble, then allowed the contestants to fight on in its pages. Buckley opened fire in the August issue; Vidal replied in the September issue, out last week. Not since George Sanders divorced...
...result, he lost first his friends, then his readers, and finally his outlets. The turning point came when Pegler accused his onetime friend, Author-Journalist Quentin Reynolds, of "nuding along the public road" with "his wench, absolutely raw," and of bearing a "yellow streak." In the ensuing 1954 libel trial, Reynolds' lawyer, Louis Nizer, humiliated Pegler by reading him unidentified writings that Pegler dismissed as "the Communist line"-only to learn that they were his own prose from the 1930s. Reynolds won a $175,001 award, paid by Hearst...
Negligence and bias is one thing; slander is another. You have now gone past the acceptable limits. Were I Samuel Huntington, I would sue you for libel. Were I one of the University's Administrators, I would take whatever steps necessary to make sure you made no further offenses of this nature John Jensen, New York City
...sure, Fielding uses the Guide to praise his friends and publicize his prejudices. He has been sued 39 times for libel, but has lost only once, when he had to pay $3,800 to taxi operators he called "the biggest crooks and racketeers in Europe." Even friendship is no insurance against a Fielding knock if an establishment goes sour. But he knocks in the pained tones of an evangelist trying to persuade a fallen woman to return to the flock...