Word: libelousness
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William Clark of Princeton, N.J., yesterday filed a $150,000 libel suit against James Bryant Conant '14, President emeritus...
...other crimes that it charged were ignored by the local government. Three weeks ago Washington, D.C. dailies ran stories on the victory of Virginia Beach, Va. Publisher J. Willcox Dunn in his fight against the local Democratic machine. His Princess Anne Free Press won $65,000 damages-biggest libel award in Virginia's history-from a machine-owned opposition weekly that said Dunn "survived by lies...
...difficult medical terms. In the palm-strewn lobbies of Eastbourne's hotels, aged widows gossiped and fingered their heavily insured necklaces, and retired colonels humphed over the bad news from Egypt. But topic No. i was something none of their newspapers could say under Britain's strict libel and contempt laws: that the doctor may also have quickened the deaths of a dozen or more other Eastbourne patients...
...Hofmans (TIME, June 25). The magazine's most sensational exposé was a 1952 story charging that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, whom it has bitterly opposed, had accepted favors from French secret service agents. Adenauer dropped defamation charges when the magazine announced publicly that it had not intended to libel him. But as a result of Der Spiegel's refusal to pay court costs, on grounds that to pay would constitute admission of error, the case is still rumbling on. Augstein-an influential member of the Free Democratic Party, which is more extreme than any other non-Communist party...
...plane had even been sighted in Ireland by taking a chance on printing and distributing 50,000 papers plastered with the photo of a grinning Lindy and the caption, WELL, I MADE IT. He "exposed" the Atlantic City beauty contest as a "frame-up." thereby pushing the total libel suits filed against the Graphic to $12 million. When the treasurer complained wistfully, Gauvreau cracked: "Take it out of my salary...