Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bizarre Measure. By Blair's bizarre measure, the Post last week succeeded be yond its wildest dreams. Wally Butts's lawyers said that they would strain Blair's yardstick with a $10 million libel suit. Already headed for the courts is a $5,000,000 suit filed by Marlon Brando, after a Post piece said that "he wasted $6,000,000 by sulking on the set" of Mutiny on the Bounty. Bear Bryant, who brought a $500,000 action last fall, after the Post accused him of teaching brutal football, says that he will file another suit...
Your researchers likewise failed lo consult Peter Rossi's study of the Hyde Park controversy, Politics of Urban Renewal. Publication of unresearched, undocumented and unfounded libel upon the Catholic Church in a magazine of national circulation is a serious breach of press responsibility and, unless effectively correcled, stands as a reflection upon the integrity of TIME...
...TIME, realizing the heat of the controversy, neither intended nor perpetrated calumny or libel. It respects Msgr. Elan's position, regrets his anger, and stands by its story...
...second-slinger to Walter Winchell covered Manhattan like it was something under a rock, then broke into the nonbook world as co author (with the late Jack Lait) of such penny dreadfuls as New York Confidential, Washington Confidential, Chicago Confidential, and U.S.A. Confidential, all of which earned him more libel suits than fame; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Eventually Garrison ran up against a sin that was worse than drink: slavery. All his other concerns were sidelined while he concentrated on this one. Moving from newspaper to newspaper, he impudently courted libel suits with his inflammatory editorials against slaveowners and traders. Convicted in one case, he spent 49 days in jail. Urged by a fellow abolitionist to calm down, Garrison snapped: "I have need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt." In 1831 he launched his newspaper, The Liberator, which so infuriated the South that the Georgia legislature offered...