Word: libellant
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Kindly, Cynical. Seven years ago Sacheverell Sitwell and his brother Osbert and sister Edith sued for libel (and won) when London's Reynolds News declared that oblivion had claimed them and "they are remembered with kindly, if slightly cynical, smiles." Sacheverell Sitwell's latest reminiscences make it clear that the comment hurt. But it is a whole school of writing, or even a whole civilization, that is remembered with a kindly and cynical smile, and The Hunters and the Hunted suggests that there were values within it which the present might consider before consigning it to oblivion...
...criticizing the press. Bernard C. Gavit, dean of the Indiana University law school, and Law Professor W. Howard Mann had been called Communists by the Hearst press. They sued for $400,000. Last week, Hearst settled out of court for $25,000 and in seven papers* recanted the libel...
...could make himself invisible, and claimed to have walked around a town once in a red robe and golden crown, unnoticed by anyone. In a treatise on magic he blandly remarked that "for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is best." In 1934 he sued Authoress Nina Hamnett for libel, claiming that he had been represented in her book as a practitioner of black magic; he said his magic was white...
There was still plenty of confusion in the newspaper offices and mistakes in the papers. "Making a correction is such an involved process," said one editor, "that we don't do it unless it's libel." But the publishers were chipper enough to think they would win their fight for a signed contract, instead of the unilateral conditions of employment - and closed shop -the I.T.U. had tried to impose...
Lavery is in Boston for the opening of his new comedy. "The Gentleman from Athens," which aroused a considerable stir when Lela Rogers mother of Ginger, termed it Communistic on America's Town Meeting of the Air. The producer and author have filed a $2 million libel suit...