Word: libellant
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...heart attack; in Denver. A lifelong anomaly in the medical profession, Dr. Spears was charged with manslaughter after a young (31) patient died six weeks after he opened his clinic, was acquitted, sued state health officials for $300,000, lost the case. He later sought damages for libel suits totaling some $36 million, never collected a nickel...
Confidential, whose 3,674,423 circulation now makes it the top single-copy newsstand seller in the U.S., has been attracting libel suits along with circulation. Last week Publisher Robert Harrison's bimonthly dirt digest admitted making its first payment for libel: a $9,000 out-of-court settlement to Lyle Stuart, editor of Expose (circ. 20,000), a muckraking monthly tabloid...
...settlement of his $250,000 suit (and presumably to keep Confidential's vulnerability confidential). Stuart had to agree not to discuss the case or publicize it beyond printing the outcome in his paper. Confidential's lawyers can now turn their attention to the magazine's other libel suits filed by such better-known figures as Doris Duke, Errol Flynn and Robert Mitchum, and totaling at the latest count...
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas got a painful lesson in the British laws of libel, learned that reflections upon the character and ability of a British official can be dangerous. The defamed Briton: Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, Britain's onetime (1941-46) governor of Burma, whom Douglas accused of general bungling in office in his travelogue North from Malaya. In a court-approved settlement, Lawyer Douglas and his British publisher last week offered "sincere apologies and regrets...
Crafty Hand. But after he saw a few more chapters, Beaverbrook lost his enthusiasm and, finally, his temper. He charged inaccuracies, misinterpretations and libel. "There were threats of litigation about hundreds of passages," Driberg recalls. He modified a few passages, but substantially, he declares, the book went into print as he wrote...