Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disease; in Boston. The son of a New York City policeman, Dowd was graduated from St. John's University and Harvard Law School, and worked briefly for a Wall Street firm before coming to TIME as its first in-house counsel. To protect the magazine from lawsuits charging libel or invasion of privacy, Dowd read nearly every word slated for publication, and he was welcomed by the editors as a resourceful partner in this effort. "Any lawyer can say no," said Dowd. "The challenge is to find out what you can publish...
...Sadlowski volunteer was shot through the neck while handing out leaflets in Houston. The battle has spilled over into the courts. Three weeks ago, McBride filed a suit charging that Sadlowski had received illegal campaign contributions from employers in other industries; last week Sadlowski countered by filing a libel suit against McBride...
...Part I) at Gadshill. But that would have destroyed the confidence of the next King of England, so Falstaff let Hal win. And as for stabbing dead Hotspur and claiming to have killed him in battle, well, Hotspur might not really have been dead. Why take chances? The worst libel of honest Falstaff occurs in Henry VI, Part I, a play written earlier than the Prince Hal histories and probably only partly by Shakespeare; here "Sir John Fastolfe" disgraces himself on the battlefield. Nye's Falstaff makes the incident honorable if not heroic...
Ethel Barrymore never forgave George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber for the play that they based on her family, the great theater dynasty, the Barrymores. She refused to speak to the authors for five years, and tried (but failed) to sue for libel. Then 15 years after The Royal Family had closed, Kaufman telephoned to ask her to appear at a benefit to be given at Radio City Music Hall during the World War II Bundles for Britain campaign. When Kaufman told her the intended date, she responded icily with one of Kaufman's own best lines, originally spoken...
Never rich, and weakened by a fight over who will succeed longtime Director Roy Wilkins, 75, the N.A.A.C.P. was in real fear of a financial debacle. Earlier this year it barely managed to post a $262,000 bond in a libel suit it lost a trial to a policeman from another Mississippi county. By last week an emergency round of fund raising-Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson even passed the hat on the street in front of his office-had produced only $763,374 for the Port Gibson bond. At the same time a frantic series of court appearances was producing...