Word: libeler
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...your May 21 Press section under the heading "Exit from the Nation" you ran a report which conveyed an inaccurate impression . . . Without arguing the merits of [Editor Freda Kirchwey's] libel suit, I want to state that my decision to resign as executive editor of the Nation antedated the libel suit brought against Mr. Clement Greenberg and the New Leader, and no connection between the two actions should be implied...
Alvarez del Vayo usually ran parallel to the Soviet line. Nation staffers were shocked when Editor Kirchwey, who had refused to let Critic Greenberg have his say in the Nation, filed libel suits against him and the anti-Communist New Leader, which printed his story...
Said Theologian Niebuhr this week: "The libel suit . . . brought to a head my disagreement with the Nation on foreign policy." Added Bendiner: "I did not want the continued use of my name on the masthead to imply support of the suit against the New Leader ... a tragic mistake." Gossip in liberal circles said that Editor Field, too, disapproved of the suit, although he insisted he was leaving for "mostly personal reasons." But it was apparent that most liberals seemed to think a liberal publication should be a forum where differences of political opinion could be aired and debated, and that...
...taste not only keeps people away from stimulating new musical experiences, but it also leads audiences to accept second-rate performances." Smith's judgment of his critical cousins was just as severe. "Criticism here tends to be either routine or intellectualized. For one thing, there are laws of libel which would hamstring any American critic . . . You can't say a particular person gives a perfunctory performance-period. You have to say he or she, in your opinion, didn't give it the necessary vigor and feeling, or in some other way get around a flat verdict...
Last week Producer Small was in for more grief. A libel action was planned by Silent Star Alice Terry, who, like the movie's heroine, played opposite Valentino in a film directed by her husband, the late Rex Ingram. Another suit was announced by Valentino's family-his brother, sister and nephew-who want redress for invasion of privacy and unauthorized use of the Valentino name...