Word: libellous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what Europeans call the feuilleton -writing characterized by witticisms, plays on words, learned references and clever insults. Some of her targets feel that she is not all that clever. When Yitzhak Raphael was being considered for Golda Meir's coalition Cabinet, Sylvie charged-in the words of the libel suit that Raphael later brought against her-"that he pretended, and still pretends to hold an academic title to which he is not entitled." She also said that he had "strange associations with very dubious people-a man who has underground connections, a card gambler and a smuggler," and that...
Some of the episodes are already familiar: the mutiny led by Editor Clay Blair and Wall Street Investor Marvin Kantor against Culligan, which ended with all three walking the plank; the fling at "sophisticated muckraking," which ended in the Post's losing a $460,000 libel suit and some of its good reputation; the advent of Ackerman, who arrived like the U.S. Cavalry, complete with his own bugle call-"I am 36 years old, and I am very rich. I hope to make the Curtis Publishing Co. rich again...
...efforts to impugn Barry Goldwater's sanity during the 1964 presidential campaign have cost Publisher Ralph Ginzburg and his now defunct Fact magazine $91,795.08 in libel settlements. After mailing his personal check to the Senator's office, the flamboyant Ginzburg vowed to "continue to speak out on any issue that I consider important to the American people. To paraphrase Patrick Henry, I care not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me debt...
...splendor of the Romanoff empire, Princess Irina was hundreds of miles away on the evening, two years later, when her husband poisoned, shot and bludgeoned to death the Mad Monk. Soon afterward the couple fled to England, where in 1934 Irina made world headlines by winning a $125,000 libel suit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the film Rasputin and the Empress, which depicted her as having been raped by Rasputin...
...Corporation will stop funding the newspaper at the end of this year, and will retract its right to use the name "the Heights." College officials claimed that a recent issue of the publication "raised questions regarding criminal libel...