Word: libellant
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...mimic are highly prized among his friends. As director of the Tate, Mr. Manson built up its modern collection but has shown something less than a devouring interest in the minutiae of modern art. Last year the French painter. Maurice Utrillo, ten years a sober man, brought a libel suit against him and the gallery (TIME, Jan. 18. 1937) and last month won a public apology for having been listed in a Tate catalogue as dead of alcoholism. No sooner was that over than Director Manson became embroiled in another ruckus...
...Europe. His recipe: "Know your man ten years before you need him; give more than you take." In London he has profited recently by being thick with the Italian Embassy, perhaps partly because he strikingly resembles a jesting Mussolini. But he is suing the London Daily Worker for criminal libel because it said he was a liaison man in the British-Italian rapprochement...
...lawful enterprise prepared to pay Lloyd's of London the right price can insure itself against almost any emergency. But lately Lloyd's rate on libel insurance has jumped prohibitively skyhigh. For shrewd, dumpy Lord Chief Justice, Baron Hewart, has applied England's oppressive libel laws so sternly that rare has been the libel which could be successfully defended...
Night and Day, a London imitation of The New Yorker, was published from last July to January, then folded up. Its best piece of fortune was that it had libel insurance when dimpled, kink-curly Shirley Temple sued it because of Critic Graham Greene's review of her Wee Willie Winkie. One of England's famed film critics, Oxonian Greene, a devout Catholic, had found Shirley's acting offensive, and offensively intimated that it appealed to man's baser sex instincts. "She wore trousers," he wrote, "with the mature suggestiveness of a Dietrich. . . . Her admirers-middle...
Promptly Publisher Block demanded a retraction. He got only a few meagre words of regret. Doggedly bent on satisfaction, Mr. Block instituted a $900,000 libel suit against the Nation and Mr. Allen. Up to this week no paper had published news of the action, for both plaintiff and defendants neatly avoided publicity by keeping the complaint out of court. If Mr. Block hoped that quietly starting suit against the Nation-which would be flattered if anyone thought it had $900,000- would smoke out a retraction, he guessed wrong. Last week the Nation's attorneys, most famed...