Word: libeler
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...Bring Your Skillets." Last week, in the Tarrant County courtroom in Fort Worth, the general and the 22-year-old cub met again. Walker was there to plead his $2,000,000 libel suit, in which he claimed that the Associated Press had, in effect, charged him with helping to incite the insurrection at Ole Miss. Walker had that very charge leveled against him by the U.S. Government, and he had also been subjected to a psychiatric examination. But doctors found him sane, and a federal grand jury refused to return an indictment...
...badly torn Democratic Party. Dismayed by it all, Brown mumbled, "Even though I'm disappointed, I feel good about having such a fine man as Pierre for Senator." Cranston, too, promised he would support Salinger-but added that he would not drop a $2,000,000 libel suit against Pierre for making the campaign charge that Cranston had put the campaign-fund arm on inheritance-tax appraisers whom he had appointed...
...Adam Clayton Powell (D.N.Y.), whose last scheduled appearance here was cancelled when he became involved in a Harlem libel trial, has agreed again to address the Harvard Radcliffe Young Democrats. The speech will be given at 8:30 p.m. Friday in Lowell Lecture Hall, Powell's topic has not been set, but he is expected to comment on the civil-rights bill...
Last week sometime Restaurateur Dempsey brought suit for $3,000,000 in libel damages against Time Inc., publishers of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Said Dempsey in his complaint to the New York Supreme Court: "My gloves were not 'loaded' when I defeated Jess Willard. I won the championship fairly...
...sees, not try to dredge up the mind's messy thoughts through stream-of-consciousness. His own novels (Tarr, The Apes of God), while wildly funny in places, are all surface and little depth. So many characters resembled recognizable people that Lewis was always being threatened for libel...