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From his publisher's standpoint Mr. Vivian Tidmarsh was hero of the day. Mr. Tidmarsh, subeditor on the Evening News, showed that his office had learned of Alice Puddifoot's vindication just in time to slip a few lines into the "stop-press" corner of the last edition. The Evening News got off with only one farthing damages...
Alice Queenie Puddifoot is a masseuse with a shop in London's Albemarle Street. Lately unkind individuals complained to the London County Council that Miss Puddifoot was no fit person to be in the massage business, demanded that her license be revoked. Miss Puddifoot was vindicated, her license renewed. But most London newspapers covering the hearing went to press with only the racy testimony of the complainants. Alice Puddifoot sued eight of the papers for libel. U. S. editors, reading the results of the trial last week, were bug-eyed with amazement at the manner in which British courts...
...Nobody, I should think . . . can but have the most sincere sympathy with Miss Puddifoot . . . ruined in her business at the very outset of her career. That, however, is beside the question. . . . You have got to decide . . . whether the report each [newspaper] published is fair and accurate. . . . These are all of them great newspapers. . . . The fact that they deal with subjects which are unpleasant in their nature is no ground for saying that they are pandering to the tastes of the more prurient-minded. After all, these newspapers are not written only for the edification of high-minded, refined, and delicately...
...jury awarded Alice Queenie Puddifoot damages against every defendant: Evening Standard ?300, News of the World ?300, Star ?200, Daily Mail ?200, Daily Herald ?200, Daily Express ?150, News Chronicle...
...Corporal Puddifoot of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade displayed a gleaming pair of gold cuff links last week, a present from Queen Mary. For Corporal Puddifoot was one of the four stretcher-bearers who bore the King-Emperor from Buckingham Palace to the motor ambulance which carried him to Bognor. Last week the King's Equerry, Col. Arthur Erskine, in behalf of the Queen, handed each of the four a pair of massive gold links, each large enough to bear the inscription: "A Memento of Her Majesty's Appreciation of Your Services...
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