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...suit that began it all-the $75,000 libel and slander suit filed against Whittaker Chambers in 1948 by Alger Hiss-was quietly dropped in Baltimore's federal district court. To answer the suit, Chambers brought forth the famed "pumpkin papers." Result: Hiss's indictment and conviction for perjury. Federal Judge W. Calvin Chesnut last week dismissed the suit "with prejudice," which means that Hiss (now serving a five-year sentence at Lewisburg, Pa. penitentiary) may never again file a similar action against Chambers...
Replied the Nation tersely: ". . . A periodical has a public duty not to disseminate scandal." Then Editor Kirchwey filed a libel suit against the New Leader and Critic Greenberg...
...McCarthy called Columnist Drew Pearson a Communist tool (TIME, Jan. 8), he thought he was safe enough. As usual, he made his attack from the libelproof U.S. Senate floor. But last week litigious Columnist Pearson thought he had found a way around McCarthy's immunity, slipped a libel suit against...
...that has popped into his head. It has not always led to the happiest results. His wife, for instance, once complained publicly that in a domestic tiff he had belabored her with a blackjack. The sheriff of Wayne County tried to jug him for not paying a $7,500 libel judgment, thus forcing him to set up a temporary government in exile at Windsor, Ont. (TIME, Aug. 21). And finally, a recall group began working for a special mayoralty election in the hope of throwing him out of office...
Mather said last night that he has not yet decided whether or not to institute a libel suit against the undergraduate paper...