Word: libels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because Harrison takes great care not to leave himself open to any possible libel action, it was not until March 9 of this year that one of his targets--Hollywood actor Robert Mitchum--filed the first suit against Confidential. Since then five more have followed, the damages requested totaling $7,500,000. But there is little chance that any of the claimants will collect. At present, the suits are all still pending. None of them have caused Harrison as much concern, however, as his recent dispute with the Post Office. None of them could end more favorably, either...
Nearly six years after he first brought a libel suit against Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler, former War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds last week got ready to collect. The U.S. Supreme Court ended the long legal battle by refusing to review a New York federal jury's $175,001 award to Reynolds (TIME, July 5, 1954 et seq.), after Pegler branded him a nudist and coward...
...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...