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...football game. Bryant also remembered an earlier Post article claiming that he taught "excessively rough football." Last week the Post's parent Curtis Publishing Co. took a long step toward relieving "Bear" Bryant's gloom. It handed him $300,000 in settlement of two libel actions against the Post...
...case was being tried in the small town of Okanogan, Wash. (pop. 2,001), but it had a big-city price tag: the plaintiffs asked $225,000 damages for libel and conspiracy. The cast of characters read like the line-up for a movie: an admitted ex-Communist, an organizer for the John Birch Society, two former state legislators (one a Democrat, the other Republican) and a dapper weekly newspaper publisher. Bit parts were to be played by a Hollywood star and an ex-U.S. Senator...
...feel like a champ," said onetime University of Georgia Football Coach Wally Butts, after an Atlanta jury awarded him $3,060,000. He had reason: it was one of the biggest libel judgments in U.S. legal history (TIME, Aug. 30). Last week in Atlanta, the same federal district judge who presided over Butts's suit against the Saturday Evening Post pared the judgment to something less than championship size. Holding that the original award was "grossly excessive," Judge Lewis R. Morgan ordered it reduced...
...anyone who blames America for the tragedy which struck in Dallas, I say you libel our people and purposely misread our politics. It was not a mind nurtured by American philosophy that turned to violence," he said. Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused slayer of President Kennedy, described himself as a Marxist, although he was American...
Equal Advantage. The credit that Semenenko raised has given Curtis much-needed time to recover. Among its unresolved problems is a spate of five libel suits. Last summer a Georgia jury awarded $3,060,000 in damages to Georgia University Athletic Director Wally Butts, whom a Post article had accused of conspiring to fix a football game. The judgment has been appealed and may well be reduced-but four other suits, asking a total of $24.5 million, still await trial. It may be necessary, said Culligan, to establish a special reserve fund to accommodate such legal actions...