Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lord Gardiner, 64, Lord Chancellor. Respected even by Tories as "the Prince of Lawyers," and noted for ruthless cross-examination in court, Gardiner has successfully defended such diverse cases as D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (obscenity) and Randolph Churchill (libel). He is a dedicated crusader against capital punishment. Son of a British shipping magnate and a German baroness, he is an unlikely Laborite who served for a time in the Coldstream Guards. As a young man he was so elegant and ennuied that his friends organized a group known as S.R.G.G.H. (Society for the Ruffling...
...course that borrowed much from the techniques and styles of existing magazines-among them LIFE, Esquire, TIME and Look-without adding much that was new. Blair also led the Post on a campaign of "sophisticated muckraking"-his term for controversial journalism-that gained the Post well-publicized libel suits but few new followers. As to advertising, the Post, which accounts for two-thirds of Curtis' magazine revenue, has not fared well either. Since 1962, its annual advertising revenue has shrunk by some...
...occasionally overlap with THE LAW, our youngest department, just under a year old this week. Business affairs, for example, are everywhere involved with legislation, from taxes to patents, and world events are influenced by international law, or its lack. Religion is concerned with the moral law, the press with libel, the worlds of show business and sport with contracts. All of modern living is touched by legal questions from rent control to divorce, and even science thinks about the laws that might apply in outer space...
Even while losing the Connor case, the Times won another last week. A New York State supreme court jury decided in favor of the Times in a $1,000,000 libel suit brought by the J. Radley Metzger company, a textile firm. The suit was based on a 1958 Times editorial accusing the company of making "sweetheart contracts," defined in the editorial as "those which benefit racketeering union officials and employers." The jury agreed that however harsh the comment, the Times had acted without malice...
...Times, paid for by friends of Integration Leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., inspired $3,000,000 worth of libel suits from various offended Alabama state and municipal officers...