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Labor leaders, who have been loudly charging many a company with double bookkeeping to hide profits, were jolted last week. Chicago's Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that unionists may be sued for libel for such statements. The decision grew out of a squabble between Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. and a C.I.O. Steelworkers' local. Back in 1943, Pullman had stated in a newspaper ad that its profits, after all expenses, were only 1.81 of a cent on the dollar...
...Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, whom she mortally hates. Wrote Cissie: "Ah, Drew, rose-sniffing, child-loving, child-cheater, sentimental Drew. . . . Vicious and. . . ." (Eleven more lines, reflecting on Mr. Pearson's personal habits, have been deleted by TIME. To publish them might put TIME into court for disseminating a libel...
Recently, speaking of "NonObjective Art," I suggested that TIME (among others) take a course in "Non-Adjective Writing." But the matter now seems more hopeless. So, I disrespectfully suggest that we, right here and now, drop the whole Art Department of TIME as a malicious libel not only upon the entire subject of Art but all honest artists everywhere...
Bill Paley snapped right back: "The article . . . is a clear example of irresponsible journalism. It falsely accuses me of using my official position to further my private financial interests. . . . Protecting my reputation against a palpable lie ... I am making arrangements to bring suit for libel...
Careful to speak before the House, so that he could not be sued for libel, Democrat Boren charged: "Two men . . . are the chief instigators of 'Swindle, Inc.' The [foremost] is a Wall Street financial agent, one Guy C. Myers, known as 'Flash' Myers to his friends back in Montana before he made a hurried exit from that state. . . . His opposite number among the holding company gang is Howard L. Aller, president of American Power & Light...