Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steamy half-hour. Wingate bravely bowed to TV protocol and said: "It's been very pleasant." Responded his guest: "I enjoyed it very much." As the WABD switchboard began to blaze, mostly with anti-Churchill calls, Interrogator Wingate began to fume, next day talked threateningly of a libel suit. When reporters caught up with home-bound Randolph on shipboard in New York Harbor, they found him sleeping unperturbed...
Schlesinger is currently facing a $250,000 suit by Samuel Insull, Jr. for alleged libel in the volume concerning the Insull utility empire...
John S. Knight's aggressive, ad-fat Miami Herald (circ. 258,764) supervises the public's welfare like an honest cop-and sounds at times as if it were judge and jury as well. Last week, during trial of a libel suit brought against the Herald by former State Attorney George A. Brautigam, the Herald's longtime Associate Editor John D. Pennekamp, 61, bragged from the witness stand about his paper's vigilance, turned to the judge and cautioned: "We are keeping a box score on you, your honor." The jury's score...
...Supreme Court not only upheld Brautigam but, in an unusual aside, commended his "courageous public service." The ruling came too late to help Brautigam. In a primary election held less than ten days after the Herald's blast, he was trounced by a little-known opponent. In his libel suit for $2,000,000 Brautigam charged that the Herald had "maliciously" undermined public confidence in his integrity...
Explaining that it was "involved" in the case, the morning Herald piously restricted its coverage of the jampacked libel trial to stories carried by the A.P. But at trial's end the Herald ran a side bar in which Publisher Knight reviewed his stand in the case. Brautigam's attorney, famed San Francisco Trial Lawyer Melvin M. Belli (pronounced Bell-eye), promptly thundered that he would file another suit against the Herald for "republishing libels." Crowed Belli: "Mr. Knight is a charming fellow. He promises to keep me in business for years...