Word: libellant
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...Kansas, and in 1940 let it be known that he had received 500,000 letters urging him to run for President as the Republican candidate. But by the end of the decade, the enthusiasm for goat glands had subsided (although Brinkley made $810,000 in 1939). He lost a libel suit against his archenemy, the A.M.A.'s Dr. Morris Fishbein. The goat doctor retired from quackery, and in 1941, after prudently shifting most of his wealth to his wife and friends, declared bankruptcy. Sadly he told the court: "I don't think there is but two Cadillacs left...
...Cinemactress Gina Lollobrigida's third claim to fame-is her knack for slapping lawsuits on nearly all who cross her path. Last week she filed libel suits against two Roman Catholic priests who had published an article in the Italian Catholic weekly, Vita Nuova, reporting that when Gina had taken her three-year-old son Milko to a screening of Solomon and Sheba, she had ordered her dance of the seven veils cut from the film. "Thus the actress makes millions marketing her nudity, but doesn't want her son victimized by this market," said the priests, adding...
...Liars." Turkey's press laws were ostensibly drawn to fill a void in the national statutes, which were vague on the subject of libel. Libel laws clearly were needed in a new democracy whose newspapers were far more inclined to the savage and often baseless personal attack than they were to calm, deliberate judgments. But the laws of Menderes go well beyond mere libel control...
...Suit. On his last evening alive, Touhy met Bodyguard Miller, Reporter Brennan and a representative of his publisher in Chicago's Press Club to worry over the fact that many booksellers were afraid to sell his book because of a $3,000,000 libel suit brought by Jake the Barber. By coincidence, Factor and Tubbo Gilbert, both grown rich and living in California, were stopping in Chicago on the same night. After two beers, Touhy left with Miller in plenty of time to be in his sister's flat by curfew. The two killers were waiting for them...
...years of a 99-year stretch. The complaint against the book: it alleges that Factor committed wholesale perjury to railroad Touhy to the big house. Last week Jake the Barber, now a well-to-do Beverly Hills philanthropist, sued Pennington and seven other defendants for $3,000,000. Complaint: libel and invasion of privacy...