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Diaries Editor Michael Davie does not presume to answer that question. His job, which he has performed with unobtrusive competence, was to provide concise background, explanations and deletions in accordance with British libel laws and his own sense of decency. Waugh himself was responsible for the most notable omission, the Oxford entries that refer to his undergraduate adventures in homosexuality. There are no diaries to cover his cuckolding and the collapse of his first marriage in 1929. For his hallucinations in 1954, one must refer back to Gilbert Pinfold...
...hour-long serial, Washington: Behind Closed Doors, is a fine example: it was called fiction (which helps avoid libel suits), but since it was loosely "based" on a novel by John Ehrlichman, who went from the White House to the jailhouse, part of the fun was seeing how he got even with his Washington colleagues. At least Washington stuck fairly close to its characters' recognizable attributes, unlike most of the schlocky bestselling novels of recent years that trade on the public's understanding that they are really about Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Onassis or Howard Hughes The viciousness...
...American corporations. In a San Antonio courtroom last week, past and present Southwestern Bell executives accused each other of everything from bribing Texas newspapers and politicians to playing host to parties for local politicians and visiting executives from other Bell system companies. They were testifying in a $29 million libel and slander suit brought against Southwestern Bell by Gravitt's widow, Oleta Gravitt Dixon,* and James Ashley, who was fired as general commercial manager for the San Antonio office of Southwestern Bell a few days after Gravitt's death. The widow claims that the company hounded her husband...
Roselli said no one has filed a libel suit about the article, even though lawyers contacted yesterday say the piece is potentially libelous...
LOOK'S LIBEL. When Look magazine accused San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto in 1969 of being "enmeshed in a web of alliances with ... La Cosa Nostra," Alioto filed a libel suit for $12.5 million. The story, plus other legal troubles (a federal mail-fraud indictment against Alioto was dropped, and he won a civil suit over allegedly improper legal fees), helped to undermine the mayor's ambitions for the California governorship. But three times the libel case went to trial (in 1970, '72, '76), and three times the juries could not agree...