Word: libellant
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Lawyer Clay, who retired four years ago to his Kentucky farm, worked hard to keep the case alive. He needled federal officials unmercifully, got newspaper backing, claimed that the investigation was not being pressed. During the turmoil, U.S. Attorney Claude Stephens filed a $50,000 libel suit against him, for charging the U.S. Attorney's office with "incompetence or worse...
...remember that Lynn Belvedere touched off a social explosion at the end of "Sitting Pretty" with the publication of his novel "Hummingbird Hill." In the interim between the two movies, he lost a fortune in libel suits, but at the same time won a literary award of $10,000. Since the award stipulates that the recipient must hold a college degree, in "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College" we find Mr. Belvedere doing just that--entering the ivied campus of Clemens U. as a gray-haired freshman...
...Pretty into a smash box-office hit. Mr. Belvedere is no longer a babysitter, but he is still insufferably and hilariously patronizing; he is still a self-confessed genius and he is still broke. His bestselling book, Hummingbird Hill, has won him fame, but lost him a fortune in libel suits. All he has left is a $10,000 prize which he can collect only by taking a college degree. With acidulous hauteur, he enrolls as a freshman at Clemens University, gets a job as hasher at the Triple Gamma sorority house, and sets out to take four years...
Mayer says that the subcommission never advocated interference in the dissemination of information; that, on the contrary, the group had gone on record as opposed to any restriction of free press aside from already existing laws about treason, incitement to violence, obscenity, and libel...
Shirley Temple would reach 21 this week and thus qualify to receive some of the big money she earned as a child cinemactress, including $11,000 won in a libel suit from an English paper that once described her as a 30-year-old midget...