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Editorial offices buzzed early this year when Charles Fulton Oursler, 44, well-paid editor-in-chief for Bernarr Macfadden's 5? weekly Liberty magazine, popped into the spotlight with a $150,000 libel suit against his employer's estranged wife, Mary Macfadden (TIME, Feb. 1). Editor Oursler charged she had written three nasty letters about him, one to New Jersey's Governor Hoffman, two to Hoffman's secretary. One of the alleged letters went so far as to suggest that Mr. Oursler might have conspired the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, intending to glorify Bernarr Macfadden by having...
Because this letter is now acknowledged by Editor Oursler to be a forgery, allegedly by one Miss Kathryn Martin Lambert to whom Oursler paid $100 "as a pure gratuity" shortly before starting suit, Editor Oursler petitioned the New York court last month to permit him to discontinue the action. Last week, over the protest of Mrs. Macfadden that Editor Oursler knew the letter was a forgery when he began suit, discontinuance was granted...
...Said Oursler's attorney, Arthur Garfield Hays, famed counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union: "The case is closed. We've done what we started to do-stop Mrs. Macfadden talking against Oursler...
...Poet, Maurice Sapienza and Peter Robert Viereck will be added to the ballot, and for the position of Odist, William Charles Oursler was nominated...
...letter quoted was a crude forgery which a blackmailer had prepared for the embarrassment of Mrs. Macfadden. They also said that two letters were actually written by Mrs. Macfadden to Governor Hoffman's secretary in which, as one who had "suffered," she expressed ''suspicions" about Mr. Oursler and the Lindbergh case. Her attorney added that though Mrs. Macfadden had urged the Governor to keep these letters confidential, he nevertheless turned them over to his "good friend, Fulton Oursler," who had also obtained the supposedly palpable fake. So crowded is the New York County's Supreme Court...