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Elio A. Bosco has filed a $100,000 libel suit against i.e. The Cambridge Review, editors of the magazine revealed last night. Bosco objected to the passage in which i.e. claimed that he was "selling drugs around the square" and "distributing pornographic movies to the clubs...
Clark filed a $150,000 libel suit against Conant in federal court Feb. 28. He charged Conant libeled him in a cabled memorandum to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles two years...
With the indictment last week of Schrunk and Langley on charges of accepting bribes from racketeers, every conspirator named by the Oregonian was facing criminal action. (Langley, who had filed libel suits for $2,000,000 against the Oregonian and several individuals who supported its story, quietly dropped them.) Still the rival Journal stuck to its guns. On Page One it ran an affidavit from Clifford ("Jimmy") Bennett, operator of an Elkins-backed after-hours drinking dive, in which Bennett denied his previous story that he had paid Schrunk $500 protection money in September 1955-the incident on which...
...campaign, a University of Manchester study of the major London dailies showed that the biggest-circulation newspapers, the Laborite Daily Mirror and the right-wing Daily Express, gave election material less than 6% of their total news space. *Noting with approval that Churchill had himself won a $14,000 libel suit against the Sunday People (TIME, Oct. 22), Evelyn Waugh wrote in the Spectator last week: "No one who knows Mr. Randolph Churchill and wishes to express distaste for him should ever be at a loss for words which would be both opprobrious...
...legislative probing came at a troublesome time for Confidential. The latest circulation report (3,269,954) showed a drop of almost 200,000 since last June. The bimonthly faces four libel suits* for a total of $5,000,000. The California attorney general's office is considering steps to prosecute Confidential for criminal libel and distribution of lewd material. There was good reason to doubt that the klieg-lit legislators would effectively police bedroom journalism, or indeed should. In fact, by emphasizing the zeal with which the leer-and-smear brigade sifts its dirt, the senate hearings lent some...