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...page 26, column 2 of your Sept. 12 issue you libel me by referring to me as "a convicted subversive in World War II." This is completely false...
...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...
...Hollywood a $400,000 "malicious libel" suit was brought against Hollywood's city fathers by Actor Charles Chaplin Jr. The libel claimed by young Chaplin, son of Swiss-exiled Comedian Charlie Chaplin, is, oddly, not in anything written but in the conspicuous omission of Charlie's name from a stretch of pavement that will be known as the Hollywood "Walk of Fame," bearing the inscribed names of some 1,500 Hollywood stars, past and present. Chaplin Jr. sees his father's failure to get star billing in cement as tantamount to public disgrace. At the very least...
...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...