Word: libellant
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...Communist Louis Budenz declared Saturday night that American Communists have kept themselves from being exposed by threatening their would be accusers with libel suits...
Skinner considered taking libel action again "Look," but decided instead to write a scathing letter to Gardine Cowles '25, publisher of the magazine Skinner reports that Cowles promised to take the matter up with "Look" editor Joseph Roddy, who wrote the story Skinner has dropped plans for any action except to release a statement about his work through the Harvard University News Office...
James F. Byrnes, who put the blast on Harry Truman in an article in Collier's last week. Byrnes had wanted to include a letter from the President attacking columnists, reported O'Donnell, but Collier's was afraid the columnists might sue for libel. So O'Donnell obligingly printed the letter himself...
...Paul A. Wagner and Rollins College (TIME, March 19, 1951 et seq.) came to an official end. Ex-President Wagner, who was fired as the climax of a quarrel that started with his dismissal of 23 professors for "economy" reasons, announced that he had settled his $100,000 libel suit against the college for $50,000, and had withdrawn his $500,000 damage suit against eleven trustees. After both sides agreed to say nothing more, Wagner fired a Parthian shot: "[I was] a scapegoat . . . I carried out the instructions of the board of trustees . . ." Then he announced...
...been subbing for Columnist Walter Winchell,* is an old partner-in-letters with Mortimer. In their first three "Confidential" books, they gave a tabloid-eye view of New York, Chicago and Washington, landing on bestseller lists with two of the books and picking up at least 14 threats of libel suits. U.S.A. Confidential may do even better. It is a city-by-city shotgun blast at the whole country, with special treatment for Chicago ("captive to the mobsters and political thieves"), Los Angeles ("a hokum-happy haven for psychopaths and confidence workers"), Milwaukee ("loaded with deadfalls, joints, clip-dives...