Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congratulations were not necessarily in order. The Sunday summons was only the latest in a long series of legal actions that began eight months ago when Mrs. Esther James, a Harlem widow, was awarded $211,500 in a libel suit she had brought against Powell (TIME, April 12). Mrs. James has been trying to collect ever since. But so far, Powell has paid nothing. And his elaborate evasive tactics are an eloquent demonstration of how a whopping award for damages may leave the winner poorer than when he brought suit...
...CASE OF LIBEL, adapted by Henry Denker from Louis (My Life in Court) Nizer's account of the Quentin Reynolds-Westbrook Pegler libel fracas, is tame theater fare, but courtroom drama buffs may relish it, and Van Heflin is a peppery paladin of justice...
...Case of Libel has been adapted by Henry Denker from a chapter in Lawyer Louis Nizer's bestseller, My Life in Court. The case, though veiled, is Newsman Quentin Reynolds' winning libel suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Since the element of suspense is nonexistent, the result is fairly tame and lethargic, except for those who relish every predictable cliche of courtroom stagecraft...
...Larry Gates makes an icy fork-tongued reptile of the man whose politics are somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan. But since the play is rigged for the triumph of good over evil, it is no more intellectually honest than a play that paints the world pitch black. Libel merely caters to an audience's smug self-righteousness, scarcely good growing weather for an examination of moral conscience. Playwright Denker ringingly declares for a responsible free press and due process of taw, which is about as audacious as sponsoring the Ten Commandments...
...apartment with a search warrant later discovered to be invalid. The prosecution told the press that he had been watching the coed for a long time because of her connection with YSA. She and the YSA both denied her affiliation with the socialist organization, and she threatened a libel suit...