Word: libels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smail, when reached for a comment on Potter's treatment of "Harvardmanship" said: "If you quote me, I'll sue you for libel...
...socially permissible to endorse foods, liquors, cosmetics and cars, but such intimate products as tooth paste, depilatories and underwear are obviously unsuitable. What to do about gossip columnists? "A well-known individual," Miss Vanderbilt seems to feel, will just have to "endure" them-unless a "damaging" story warrants a libel suit. Apparently aware that some of her readers are not trying to avoid columnists, she blandly adds: "The debutante who . . . enters a nightclub with a gazelle on a leash can be virtually sure [of] a line of print somewhere...
...thought that I knew of every conceivable form of wickedness," said a judge to a London jury in summing up a libel case in 1934. "I thought that everything which was vicious and bad had been produced at one time or another before me. I have learned in this case that we can always learn something more ... I have never heard such dreadful, horrible, blasphemous and abominable stuff as that which has been produced by the man who describes himself to you as the greatest living poet...
Jenner has been under heavy attack from Democratic Presidential nominee Adlai E. Stevenson and President Truman for using the libel-free halls of the U.S. Senate to brand General George C. Marshall "the living lie" and "a front man for trajtors." Marshall was Chief-of-Staff of the Army during World...
...made his statement under oath as a witness in the $2,000,000 libel suit brought by Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin against Senator William Benton of Connecticut. McCarthy's attorney asked Smith if he thought there were Communists in the State Department...