Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taste not only keeps people away from stimulating new musical experiences, but it also leads audiences to accept second-rate performances." Smith's judgment of his critical cousins was just as severe. "Criticism here tends to be either routine or intellectualized. For one thing, there are laws of libel which would hamstring any American critic . . . You can't say a particular person gives a perfunctory performance-period. You have to say he or she, in your opinion, didn't give it the necessary vigor and feeling, or in some other way get around a flat verdict...
Last week Producer Small was in for more grief. A libel action was planned by Silent Star Alice Terry, who, like the movie's heroine, played opposite Valentino in a film directed by her husband, the late Rex Ingram. Another suit was announced by Valentino's family-his brother, sister and nephew-who want redress for invasion of privacy and unauthorized use of the Valentino name...
Bell Syndicate's Drew Pearson, introduced, in recognition of his libel docket, as "the only man . . . with more suits than Hart Schaffner & Marx," rolled with the attack. He realized, he said, that some "indefensible things" had been published by columnists, "and I myself have sinned. I'd like to forget a number of things." But alert columnists have kept the lid on graft, have "been able ... to give to newspapers some things which they would not otherwise...
...facts in the celebrated case of White House Aide General Vaughan and the deepfreeze scandal (TIME, July 4, 1949 et seq.) and was "afraid" to print it. Instead, it passed the story on to Congressmen to investigate. When Pearson picked up the trail in Washington, he risked libel and printed as much of the story as he could get. Said Pearson: "If Mr. Ferguson's paper had published and not banned columns, they would have published the story of General Vaughan...
...never been in Germany, never been court-martialed. In fact, at the time of Richard F. Whitcomb's conviction, he was president of a Boston drug company and his name was listed in the Boston phone book. The papers quickly printed retractions, but Whitcomb filed separate libel suits for $250,000 each against the Boston papers, the U.P. and the Springfield Republican and News...