Word: libeler
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...Curtis' worries, William C. Newberg, former president of the Chrysler Corp., last week filed a $2,000,000 libel suit claiming damage from a Post article about a management shakeup at Chrysler-the latest of some half-dozen actions generated during Clay Blair's "sophisticated muckraking" approach to journalism. Nor have Rebel Leaders Blair and Kantor had their last say. Both have brought suit against Curtis for the balance they claim is due them under unexpired contracts; both are collaborating on a book about Curtis' October revolution. Said Blair: "It will rock Philadelphia...
...Threats. Producer Saudek has hired good actors. Sidney Blackmer, who played the defense attorney in A Case of Libel, was an effective Underwood, and Victor Jory was full of smoke and chalk, manning the blackboards as Underwood's campaign manager. But best of all, the Underwood program gave a beaded-forehead impression of oldtime political conventions, with 103 ballots and whispered threats in hot hotel rooms. Ironically, it was good television about the good old days before political conventions were ruined by television...
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...