Word: libellant
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...socially permissible to endorse foods, liquors, cosmetics and cars, but such intimate products as tooth paste, depilatories and underwear are obviously unsuitable. What to do about gossip columnists? "A well-known individual," Miss Vanderbilt seems to feel, will just have to "endure" them-unless a "damaging" story warrants a libel suit. Apparently aware that some of her readers are not trying to avoid columnists, she blandly adds: "The debutante who . . . enters a nightclub with a gazelle on a leash can be virtually sure [of] a line of print somewhere...
Jenner has been under heavy attack from Democratic Presidential nominee Adlai E. Stevenson and President Truman for using the libel-free halls of the U.S. Senate to brand General George C. Marshall "the living lie" and "a front man for trajtors." Marshall was Chief-of-Staff of the Army during World...
...made his statement under oath as a witness in the $2,000,000 libel suit brought by Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin against Senator William Benton of Connecticut. McCarthy's attorney asked Smith if he thought there were Communists in the State Department...
...CRIMSON appreciates the concern of former OCP chairman Steadman. The "Liberal Republican" tag was applied to the News by one of its present editors who was then quoted by the Associated Press. No libel was intended by the CRIMSON...
Last week, with the golden days gone, 65-year-old Muriel Draper died in New York's University Hospital, after nearly two weeks of suffering under an oxygen tent. With her was her dancer son, Paul Jr. Two years before, during his unsuccessful libel suit against Greenwich housewife Hester McCullough, who had labeled him pro-Communist (TIME, June 5, 1950), Paul had attempted to explain his mother -and in so doing had characterized quite a lot of U.S. intellectuals and their hangers-on. Said he: "She has made statements that are not so. They are not lies . . . They...