Word: libelous
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...Author. Ludwig Lewisohn, fiery champion of his ego, is famed for his auto biographical novels. He once found him self in a $200,000 libel suit brought by his first wife ("Bosworth Crocker"), who thought she recognized herself in one of them (Mid-Channel). Author Lewisohn announced last fall he would write no more analytical novels. Short, stocky, pince-nezed, middleaged, he has a voice which is "deep, elaborate, studied." He has also written : Upstream, The Island Within, Mid-Channel, Stephen Escott...
...good repute, a onetime Chicago rail-road counsel, wanted no stock. Fortnight later Town Topics printed an insinuating story in which Lawyer Brown believed he recognized himself, his wife, and another woman. Last week Augustus Ralph Keller, president and editor of Town Topics, was under indictment for criminal libel. He denied attempting to sell stock to Lawyer Brown, declared he had been out of town when the offending story was written. Publisher Keller's regime on Town Topics was until recently, relatively inconspicuous. Five years ago he succeeded the late Mrs. Emma Mann-Vynne who. five years previously...
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Slander & Libel...
...correspondents suddenly learned that Censor Seeger was technically correct in denying that Hitlerites had forced the film's closing. None less than old President Paul von Hindenburg, a man who had spent a half century in the German Army, had threatened to resign "if this libel on the German soldier" was not withdrawn...