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...branded a "scurrilous lie" by Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty) that President Eisenhower had taken a hand in the "giveaway" of Oregon timberland to Al Sarena Mines, Inc. (TIME, Feb. 6). Next, after five expensive years of legal maneuvers, Pearson quietly dropped his $5,100,000 damage and libel suits against Senator Joe McCarthy, Columnists Westbrook Pegler, Fulton Lewis Jr., and six others (TIME, March 12, 1951). At week's end, having thus turned both cheeks, Pearson was slapped with a $250,000 libel suit by Oregon Democratic Politician Lew Wallace, who charged Pearson with falsely implicating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tough Week | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...Mickey was not to be stopped that easily. In 1938, he sued the Lampoon for libel and threatened to tear down their Hearst-bequeathed edifice and install Benny Jacobson in its stead. He's a helluva lot funnier than the Lampoon anyway," he said. Along more "serious" lines, the Dude introduced a bill into the council to strike the words "Lenin" and "Leningrad" from all Cambridge library books. Eddic proudly tells anyone who will listen how his father predicted the "notorious spread of Marxism in the University...

Author: By Ernest A. Ostro, | Title: The Son of the Dude | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...police, who lacked the evidence to make arrests until Specs O'Keefe "sang" about his ten accomplices (TIME, Jan. 23). But Dinneen, who had been beating his competitors regularly on the story, also beat the police. He told the story vividly -and hedged against libel-by disguising it thinly as fiction, first in a Collier's piece, then in his book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anatomist of Crime | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...city desk where he was-just in case. Pino looked hurt. "Joe," he admonished, "you should know you didn't have to do that." When writing his book, Dinneen wanted to use Pino's history as the background of the main character, Tony Turchino, but feared libel. Pino obligingly gave him a written release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anatomist of Crime | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...Scandalmongering Rave magazine soon got around to handing Terry its "Lady Bum" award for her "hypocritical display of outraged modesty." Last week, feeling degraded and maligned. Terry entered the lists of Hollywood stars tilting with the sewer sheets (TIME, July 11), lanced Rave with a $2,000,000 libel suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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