Word: libellous
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Mobil chief wins libel award...
...cleared his debts (including $387,000 in legal fees), partly by writing novels. Of 56 books he has written, his autobiography, Undercover, "did the least well," he says. Hunt's first wife died in 1972 plane crash. He has remarried. Last year he won $650,000 libel suit against right-wing Liberty Lobby, which had falsely linked him to John Kennedy's assassination. Now lives in Miami...
...often skeptically disputes what it is told, but the eye accepts as reality the picture before it. Words that might seem bland on an Op-Ed page can take on unexpected and unpredictable force when matched with pictures. Perhaps this is why, in a libel case in Cleveland, a federal judge refused to admit the typed transcript of a broadcast as evidence, ruling that the jury would have to decide on the "spoken words and images...
About 40 writers contributed to the project, including such notables as Commentator Jeff Greenfield of CBS, Novelist Cyra McFadden and Business Reporters Andrew Tobias and Chris Welles. Every story was read by a lawyer, but the editors are seeking $1 million worth of libel insurance. Thus far, there has been no protest from the chief target of the gibes, the Journal itself, perhaps because the paper is inured to annual imitation by The Bawl Street Journal, produced by the financial community's Bond Club of New York. Much fun is had with the bucket-thumping editorial-page style...
...with a penknife in 1960 (and got off with a suspended sentence). A fierce outrage cascaded down on him last week. It was common to hear New Yorkers say that he should be tried as an accessory to murder. Mailer barged around giving interviews and suing a newspaper for libel, looking truculent and stricken...