Word: libelousness
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...immigration toward the last years of the Depression, McWilliams championed the collective farm, has been connected with half a dozen organizations since cited by the U.S. Attorney General as subversive, e.g., Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy. Last week, for a half-hearted apology, the Nation settled a libel suit against its former art critic, Clement Greenberg, who in a letter to the New Leader (TIME, April 2, 1951) had accused Nation Foreign Editor Alvarez del Vayo of "invariably [paralleling] Soviet propaganda...
Four recent libel suits did not faze Confidential magazine (TIME. July 11) and caused no change in its up-from-the sewer journalistic formula of sex and sin. But in Washington last month, Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield threw a scare into the magazine that rattled every skeleton in its closet; he barred Confidential from the mails after a "number of complaints." Post Office officials objected to among other things, a racy description of a stripteaser's gyrations and a "questionable cheesecake photograph of Hollywood Starlet Terry Moore. Hereafter each issue of Confidential must be cleared by the Post Office...
...network for 25 years;* he was getting as much as $16,000 a broadcast, and the American Broadcasting Co. had given him a lifetime contract, guaranteeing him a minimum of $1,000 a week, whether he broadcast or not. ABC also insured Gossipist Winchell for $1,000,000 against libel suits; even if he lost a suit, he would not have...
When Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke sued Confidential magazine for $3,000,000 for libel, United Feature Syndicate's Columnist Inez Robb sounded a hearty bravo. Wrote Newshen Robb: "Miss Duke has just struck a blow for liberty, freedom and decency . . . against the most putrid of the so-called 'exposé' magazines now defiling newsstands. Let us hope that . . . the gutter journalists responsible draw a stiff jail or penitentiary sentence...
Last week Confidential, which now has six libel suits pending against it, slapped a $9,000,000 libel suit on Columnist Robb, the syndicate and the New York World-Telegram and Sim. But Inez Robb was properly unworried. Said she: "I'm eating and sleeping normally...