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...Among his clients: Underworld Overlord Frank Costello, Teamster Boss Dave Beck, the late Senator Joe McCarthy. Among his triumphs: arguing the first libel suit ever won against Columnist Drew Pearson, beating a Post Office ban on Confidential...
Loser for the League. First and last, "Fighting Jimmy" Cox was a newspaperman. At 28, he was already an influential publisher who took pride in the fact that his Dayton Daily News had racked up more than $1,000,000 in libel suits by its hard-hitting reporting. All the suits were later dropped. After buying the Miami Daily News in 1923, he covered Badman Al Capone's local activities so thoroughly that a gangster syndicate offered Cox $5,000,000 for the paper. The offer was turned down...
...virtue, Confidential came out last week with the second editorial irt its five-year history. Its aim: to persuade readers that "a determined effort by a segment of the motion picture industry to 'get' this magazine" was responsible for a Los Angeles indictment charging Confidential with criminal libel and three other counts (TIME, June 24). Invoking God, the Stars and Stripes and "the world's largest newsstand sale,"* Scandal-mag Publisher Robert Harrison declaimed: "We believe that the truths we have published have been in the best traditions of American journalism...
...Westover threw out of his Los Angeles court last week a $3,000,000 countersuit by Harrison charging California's attorney general with suppression and censorship for warning dealers and distributors that they might be prosecuted for handling Confidential and its gutter-sister Whisper. And in the first libel suit that has yet included Confidential's 3,000 California distributors as well as the magazine, Screen Star Maureen (The Quiet Man) O'Hara asked for $1,000,000 in damages for a March story that claimed she once picked row 35 of Hollywood's Grauman theater...
Confidential's Publisher Robert Harrison, his two sisters and three other associates, all under a Los Angeles indictment on counts of criminal libel, distributing lewd and obscene material and disseminating illegal information about abortions and male rejuvenation, walked into the Manhattan D.A.'s office one day last week and voluntarily surrendered. But it was only a technical surrender. As California's Governor Goodwin Knight signed extradition papers for the lot and fired them off to New York, Harrison & Co. said they would oppose extradition, retorted with a $2,047,125 suit against California's Attorney General...