Word: libels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...self-hypnosis, came to feel himself the center of his time." Gauvreau hoots at Winchell's illiteracy (he called Zola a famed woman writer, described Paris as a seaport city), damns Winchell for perfecting the kind of tabloid journalism he himself did most to encourage. Editing Winchell for libel "developed in me a philosophical imperturbability which, otherwise, my nervous make-up might never have acquired." Said Arthur Brisbane of Winchell's jargon: "Shake speare described it. 'A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...
...Children's Hour" (The American Youth Congress); on "the Typewriter Front" and "the Intellectual Red Terror." "Cocktails for Spanish Democracy" includes some of the plainest and clearest speaking yet heard on the befogged subject of the Red stake in Loyalist Spain. Less outspoken (for reasons of libel) is the chapter on "America's Own Popular Front Government," the Communist penetration of the New Deal...
...case of Viscount Wolmer, Government Director of Cement, who also draws a $20,000 salary from the cement makers' federation. Lord Wolmer's leading critic has been the Rt. Rev. Ernest Barnes, famed Bishop of Birmingham, who some months ago lost a ?1,600 libel suit over remarks he made about the "cement ring." Last week the unrepentant Bishop stood up in the House of Lords to ask, "Ought a Government officer, sitting in a Government building and giving instructions, to be paid by monopolists whom he may have in the national interest to coerce...
Britons still debated the truth about the Duke of Hamilton and his friends-in Glasgow so violently that dramshop dialecticians often came to blows. The Duke started libel action against London Communists for saying he had plotted with Hess. Communist Harry Pollitt retorted that he would call Rudolf Hess as a witness...
...busiest muckraker is the Rev. Elmer Williams (Methodist), 67, husky, hot-tempered publisher of Lightnin' (average circ. 2,500), a lively, often accurate little sheet which for years has lambasted the Chicago Tribune, gangsters, labor racketeers, politicians. But not until last week was Crusader Williams sued for libel. A State's Attorney's investigator and two furriers sued because Lightnin' called them fur racketeers. Acquitted in 20 minutes flat, Gadfly Williams told the Court: "I am not a reformer, I am an informer...