Word: libellant
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...Greene, then active as a movie critic, wrote a magazine article which referred to, among other things, her "dimpled depravity." In 1938, Shir ley sued for libel, won a $10,000 settlement...
...outright, A & M, the only such three-man firm in the city, declared that it was easily identifiable. A & M admitted that one of the trio had two felony convictions (not for burglary), but the other two had clean records. The firm's members filed a $175,000 libel suit...
...this was too much for Judge Malcolm E. Douglas. He found Watson in contempt of court, and imposed an unusual penalty: he held Watson in default in the libel suit-which, in effect, ruled him guilty of libel and barred him from participating in the trial or the determination of damages. Judge Douglas said he would determine the damages to be assessed against Watson following a jury trial of the case against the Post-Intelligencer's publishers (Hearst) and three restaurants...
...cheapskate. Holly herself was made to look like a piker last week when one Bonnie Golightly. who insists that she is the real-life original of Holly, filed suits totaling $800,000 against Capote, Esquire (which first published the long story) and Random House. The grounds: 1) libel. 2) invasion of privacy...
...Communist propaganda, sent out a girl reporter to interrogate Murrow. The reporter tracked him to the very door of a CBS washroom, but got no information, was reduced to reporting about his red suspenders ("They're cute"). The Journal also came close to daring CBS to sue for libel by suggesting (so far without any supporting evidence) that the show had been a hoax, that actors and actresses had been used...