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...Christian Ficthorne Reisner, of Manhattan, Broadway Temple's publicity expert pastor, told his followers how to recognize speakeasies, described his own adventures inside them. Dr. Reisner tells the men at the peepholes: " 'This is Christian F. Reisner, the pastor of Broadway Temple.' I make no bones about that. Usually I am admitted, and a surprising number of the bartenders have heard of me. Sometimes the customers drink in my presence. . . . Usually when they hear what I have to say the drinking stops, for I always say to the bartender or the owner: 'Aren...
Clergymen have been hailing Lutheran Pastor Emil Swenson of Minneapolis who accepted a court sentence rather than reveal secrets confided to him by a parish- ioner (TIME, March 16). The Press, which also hailed Pastor Swenson, last week hailed even more loudly a "martyr" of its own: youthful, dapper Edmond M. Barr, dramatic critic and ace newshawk of the Dallas Dispatch. Reporter Barr went to jail rather than break journalism's proud rule: Never expose your pipelines. Reporter Barr wrote for his paper of how two Communist organizers, C. J. Coder and Lewis Hurst, were taken from the city...
WARRANT FOR PASTOR IN FUR THEFTS; LOOT CACHED IN ORGAN AT PARK FALLS...
...headline in the Milwaukee Journal year ago. When Rev. B. F. Schoenfeld, pastor of the Congregational Church at Park Falls, Wis. read that headline, he boiled with rage. It referred to his church. And he was sure that anyone reading the headline would believe that he was accused of larceny. To be sure, the news story made it clear that someone else had stolen the furs from the organ loft, where they had been secreted. And the man arrested for the theft revealed that two of the skins were not yet dry, indicating they had been trapped out of season...
...headline alone cannot be made the cause of a libel action unless it commits a complete libel in itself, and definitely identifies the libelled person. Otherwise, judgment must be based upon the entire article. Said the court: "Even assuming that [the headline] is susceptible of the meaning that some pastor at Park Falls had been named in a larceny warrant, there is nothing in these headlines to identify the plaintiff as being such pastor. It is well settled that defamatory words must refer to some ascertained or ascertainable person and that that person must be the . . . plaintiff...