Word: libels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's famous libel laws are hard on critics, fun for artists. Britain's famous Sitwells love fun. Last month, between bombs, they had their fun in court. The Three Sitwells are not an acrobatic act. They are Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell, the fractious, fastidious scions of Sir George Reresby Sitwell, fourth Baronet, Lord of the Manor of Long Itchington. Osbert is a poet, essayist, novelist (Before the Bombardment, Escape With Me). Sacheverell is an outstanding authority on baroque art and Liszt, author of a distinguished travel book (Roumanian Journey) and much verse. Edith usually dresses like...
Often sued for libel, Publisher William Randolph Hearst has never sued in return. Last week he turned the tables, filed a $500,000 libel suit against the magazine Unbelievable, a leftist muckraking quarterly published by the leftist muckraking weekly, Friday. Reason for the suit: Unbelievable's charge that Hearst and his International News Service received a subsidy from the Nazis...
...Rome, a nephew of the late Carlo Lorenzini, who wrote Pinocchio, asked the Ministry for Popular Culture to sue Walt Disney for libel. Charge: Disney's film so distorted the character of Pinocchio that "he easily could be mistaken for American...
Next day the Crimson, ignoring Joseph Lyford's threat to sue it for libel, made no mention of its hoax but reported that book-turning had broken out anew, this time in the Adams House library. Harvard was still baffled by its most mysterious pranking in many a year...
Soon R. K. O. officials decided to release the picture in February anyway. Of course, there was the question of a libel action. Would Publisher Hearst sue? Valhallan silence gripped the crags of San Simeon. For Publisher Hearst's dilemma, if he insisted on publicly pointing out the similarities between himself and Citizen Kane, was acute. In any case, R. K. O. lawyers decided that Hearst had no case. More probably, it was rumored, Director Welles would give Publisher Hearst a private preview, make necessary adjustments. Seldom in Hollywood history had there been such a prospective buildup. Wiseacres shook...