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...Channel, latest book of Ludwig Lewisohn, famed autobiographer, contains a bitter word-portrait of a woman. Mrs. Mary Arnold Lewisohn, the wife from whom Author Lewisohn has been separated since 1925, charged that the portrait was intended to be of herself. She sued for $200,000 libel. Harper & Bros., publishers of the novel, moved that Mrs. Lewisohn's complaint be dismissed. Last week Justice Peter Schmuck of the New York State Supreme Court, ruling on this motion, said: "Although for the most part the book is the gibberish ego of a selfish sentimentalist, and . . . the feverish exhalations of a perverted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Three weeks ago the Richmond Times-Dispatch, reporting the International Paper & Power Co. investigation, stated, in effect, that John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the rival Richmond News-Leader, had gone to North Carolina to buy a newspaper for I. P. & P. Publisher Bryan prepared a $500,000 libel suit against the Times-Dispatch (TIME, May 27). Last week the Times-Dispatch expressed public regrets for the statement. The Bryan suit was withdrawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Power & the Press, Cont. | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Automotive Daily News. On May 15, Automotive Daily News, automobile trade paper, published a story concerning an alleged new Reo eight. Reo Motor Car Co. promptly filed suit for one million dollars libel, calling the story "utterly false and without foundation." Reo's President Richard H. Scott took a page advertisement in metropolitan dailies to denounce the "pastime of originating and circulating falsehoods about motor industry," and improved the opportunity to cheer for the Reo six and to flay eights in general. He has seen no eight as good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Edward Beale McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, famed as owner of the Hope diamond, and as a friend of the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding (TIME, March 10, 1924). Last week he sued the Philadelphia Record, a Democratic daily, for one million dollars damages on account of libel which Plaintiff McLean described in his declaration as "false, wicked, malicious, scandalous and defamatory." This he did because, said he, the Philadelphia Record did wickedly contrive and falsely and maliciously intend to bring him (McLean) into public disrepute and "to cause it to be suspected and believed that he attended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

John Macrae, president of E. P. Button & Co., famed Manhattan publishers, was sued last week for $200,000 libel by the Book of the Month Club. Publisher Macrae has often charged that the club judges are influenced in their choice of books by the club business managers. The club judges: Editor-Critic Henry Seidel Canby, Colyumist Heywood Broun, Authoress Dorothy Canfield, Author Christopher Morley, Publicist William Allen White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: may 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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