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...Hollywood one evening last December Sidney & Doris Preisler went to the cinema. They had been married a year. Sidney, 25, was a musician. Doris, 21, was four months pregnant. Seeking light amusement they chose the Hollywood Pantages Theatre where a film called Imitation of Life was showing. Warmed by the picture's exaltation of mother-love, the Preislers were in a pleasant glow when it came to an end and a Universal Newsreel took its place...
Suddenly upon the screen was flashed the naked corpse of Public Enemy George ("Baby Face'') Nelson, scarred, cut and bloodied by the bullets of Federal agents (TIME. Dec. 10). At the grisly sight Doris Preisler gasped, gripped her husband's arm, shut her eyes in horror. Hustled home, she suffered a miscarriage, underwent two operations. Last week Sidney & Doris Preisler sued Universal Pictures for $150,000 on the ground that the newsreel had done them that much damage...
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