Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people whose private lives have been rudely invaded by the press or radio, journalism is simply bad taste in print or wired for sound. Can they do anything about it? Not much, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week. The court upheld dismissal of the suit of two sisters who had sued a Tuscaloosa radio station for digging up a story about their father's disappearance in 1905. "The right of privacy is supported by logic and the weight of authority," said the court, but in the face of "legitimate public interest" it has to give...
...newsman could give a final answer. The New York Times is decently mum on many a scandal that the hard-eyed New York Daily News delights to mock and maul. In the current American Mercury, Chicago Lawyer Mitchell Dawson tries to fix the legal boundary between privacy and the press. Actually, says he, the right of privacy is neither ancient nor inalienable. It was formulated no longer ago than 1890, by Louis Brandeis, later Supreme Court Justice, and his law partner, Samuel D. Warren, in a magazine article prompted by the rise of yellow journalism. Brandeis and Warren suggested that...
...Legal restraints," wrote Lawyer Dawson, "will never stop newsmen from supplying what they think the public wants, as long as we still have freedom of the press. Restraints, to be effective, must be imposed by the gentlemen of the press and radio themselves." A man's only hope of exercising his right of privacy-is "to live a happy humdrum life and stay out of the way of newsmen...
...holiness-made him the rare combination of a prelate who was also a prophet. Those who knew Temple will never forget him. For those who did not know him, there is now a fine full-length portrait: Dean F. A. Iremonger's official biography, William Temple (Oxford University Press; 663 pages; 25 shillings...
...anyone could find Washington-the-man behind the cold marble mask of the historical figure, it was Douglas Freeman. Next week, with the first two volumes off the press (there are four more to come, the last in 1952), readers can get started on what is certain to be the best researched life of Washington yet written...