Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newsletters of Southern Baptist churches in Rainelle, W. Va., Phoenix, Ariz., Greensboro, N.C. and Knoxville, Tenn. One clergyman of the Nazarene Baptist Church, W. L. King, who quoted the oath and refused to retract when its fraud was pointed out to him, last week was charged with criminal libel in the magistrate's court at West View...
...Libel & Vampires. Cooper became bitter about critics who complained of both his style of writing and of living. His letters rumble with snarls against such "jackals" and "vampires"-back home he sued several of them for libel, and won. Perhaps he had stayed in Europe too long; on his return he seemed out of step with Jacksonian America, and though he wrote many more novels-including several highly popular Leatherstocking tales-he could not really regain the favor of critics or public...
Last week Salisbury's objectivity and the Times's responsibility were put to a legal test by the city of Birmingham. In the Federal District Court for North Alabama, City Commissioners James W. Morgan, Eugene ("Bull") Connor and J. T. Waggoner filed a $1,500,000 libel suit against the Times and Salisbury, charged that the articles "falsely inferred and insinuated" that the city commissioners "encouraged racial hatred . . . and oppression of the Negro race...
...Kansas, and in 1940 let it be known that he had received 500,000 letters urging him to run for President as the Republican candidate. But by the end of the decade, the enthusiasm for goat glands had subsided (although Brinkley made $810,000 in 1939). He lost a libel suit against his archenemy, the A.M.A.'s Dr. Morris Fishbein. The goat doctor retired from quackery, and in 1941, after prudently shifting most of his wealth to his wife and friends, declared bankruptcy. Sadly he told the court: "I don't think there is but two Cadillacs left...
...Cinemactress Gina Lollobrigida's third claim to fame-is her knack for slapping lawsuits on nearly all who cross her path. Last week she filed libel suits against two Roman Catholic priests who had published an article in the Italian Catholic weekly, Vita Nuova, reporting that when Gina had taken her three-year-old son Milko to a screening of Solomon and Sheba, she had ordered her dance of the seven veils cut from the film. "Thus the actress makes millions marketing her nudity, but doesn't want her son victimized by this market," said the priests, adding...