Word: libels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itch. >M. de Malancourt, a wealthy gentleman, had an "astonished camera artist take an art photo of his plump and symmetrical backsides, without drapery." Then he sent a handsomely mounted and autographed print to an art expert whom he suspected of selling him a fake Watteau. Sued for libel by the expert, M. de Malancourt conducted his own defense in the great French tradition. "A picture of one's backsides, he argued, was more intimate and personal than a photograph of one's face. To send it to a friend or acquaintance, therefore, was not an insult...
...plan ("$25 every Monday morning"), and Ellis O. Jones, chief of the isolationist National Copperheads, were picked up for sedition last December, soon freed. Francis Biddle said then: "Free speech as such ought not to be restricted." Last week the State of California accused Jones and Noble of criminal libel. In a Friends of Progress publication they had written that General Douglas MacArthur, when he moved from Bataan to Australia, "just ran out in the dead of night. ..." Führer Noble fumed in Los Angeles County jail: "I was amazed. . . . I made a thorough study of the sedition laws...
...much about the story already, even if you haven't seen the picture or the show, as you do about Alexander Woolcott's glee in having a play written about his thousand-and-one ways to lose friends and alienate people. If he doesn't sue the authors for libel, he has either a magnificent sense of humor or such atrocious manners that he deserves having Kaufmann and Hart throw verbal darts...
...showman's standards to the great U.S. indoor amusement. His first "Showmanship Survey" in 1933, in which he gave U.S. stations strict ratings on local enterprise, resulted in gey sers of protest, including a four-page lament from NBC's then President Merlin Hall Aylesworth charging "commercial libel." Landry responded with two more surveys at six -month intervals, after which the survey became an annual event (TIME, Dec. 29). Landry's conclusion about...
Design for Scandal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a libel on the U.S. bench. It exhibits Jurisprudence (tall, dark and handsome Rosalind Russell, a female judge) knuckling under to Cupid (tall, dark and handsome Walter Pidgeon, a reporter). This farcical victory is won by Newsman Pidgeon over Judge Russell after she has awarded his employer's (Edward Arnold) wife so much alimony that he has to earn $18,000 more a month to pay it and has to send Pidgeon to frame the judge, into the bargain. Characteristically, the judge won't admit that she loves the reporter except...