Word: libelous
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Collier's heyday lay roughly between 1905 and 1917, during the editorships of Norman Hapgood, Finley Peter Dunne and Mark Sullivan. ''Everyone'' read the magazine in those days of its rousing blasts against patent medicines, adulterated foods and adulterated politics. Those, too, were the days of the sensational libel suit brought by the late Col. William D'Alton Mann of Town Topics against the late Founder Peter F. Collier and Editor Hapgood (TIME...
...last week the Police Department, smothered with a plethora of "leads," was unable to produce a single clue to the woman's death. Meantime, enterprising newspapers were able to print "true stories" of the whole case with only a few names omitted for libel's sake. When the wheels of justice seemed incapable of budging in the Bischoff case, conscientious citizens began to think that the legal machinery of their town had been allowed to grow rusty with disuse, that it was high time that an investigation be made higher up. Fortnight ago, the City Club, a potent civic organization...
...also made clear that Pastor Schoenfeld, who was known to trade in furs as a sideline to preaching, had been served with a warrant for possession of "illegal" furs, not for stealing. The truth of all this Pastor Schoenfeld did not contest, but nevertheless he filed a libel suit for $100,000, protesting the headline. A jury refused it. The pastor appealed...
Last week the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a headline alone cannot be made the cause of a libel action unless it commits a complete libel in itself, and definitely identifies the libelled person. Otherwise, judgment must be based upon the entire article. Said the court: "Even assuming that [the headline] is susceptible of the meaning that some pastor at Park Falls had been named in a larceny warrant, there is nothing in these headlines to identify the plaintiff as being such pastor. It is well settled that defamatory words must refer to some ascertained or ascertainable person and that...
Until January Sculptor Katchamakoff was a Bulgar. Born in Sofia 33 years ago, he practiced law just one year. A plausible talker, he successfully argued himself out of a libel suit for modelling and exhibiting a head of the Mayor of Sofia in his cups. Entering the National Art Academy, he was promptly disowned by his father. In 1922, 1924 he won sculpture prizes in Berlin, Venice, came to the U. S., got a job making models for Hollywood super-spectacles. Came the talkies and the end of such pageants, but Sculptor Katchamakoff was not disheartened. He moved to Palm...