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Giesler was encouraged in his suits by what happened last week to another Confidential imitator, Rave. After Humphrey Bogart filed a $1,000,000 suit for accusing him of misbehaving in Paris, Rave agreed to print a complete retraction in the issue coming out in August. Rave also got in trouble with a story about the married life of the Hollywood James Masons. Actor Mason slapped on a $1,199,000 suit, and last week won a retraction and a $1,000 settlement out of court. Rave was too broke* to pay the $1,000 damages in one lump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sewer Trouble | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...Wealthy Philadelphia Contractor John B. Kelly decided not to sue Rave for a story about his daughter, Cinemactress Grace Kelly, when he learned that its editor (then on the masthead as "Victor Huntington Rowland") "didn't have a dime." Said ex-Olympic Sculler Kelly: "If my son or I ever meet him, we'll take him on ... We'll settle it in our own way without a lawsuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sewer Trouble | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...rarely matched. The language was international, and the Americans spoke it eloquently. The successful envoys: the 102 members of the touring Philadelphia Orchestra and Conductor Eugene Ormandy. When Budapest-born, U.S.-naturalized Ormandy and his musicians finished their series of Paris concerts last week, they had a fistful of rave reviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Culture for Export | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Following the first concert, Boston critics gave rave notices to the Harvard Radcliffe singers. Penfield Roberts of the Boston Globe described Davison's method of introducing serious music to the singers: "He simply says, informally, words to this effect: 'Fellows, I've got a dandy new piece for you-listen.' Then he sits down and plays and sings it for them, and instead of being bored they like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ". . . The Love Music and They Love to Sing" | 3/8/1955 | See Source »

...questions at a stock-holders' meeting, for instance--and let it lead you into satirizing various topics found right there on the front page. Then, for good measure, supplement the jokes about businessmen moved to Washington and press sensationalism with a few vaudeville routines and technical novelties, and the rave reviews are as good as written. You play is sure to run at least a year on Broadway--and perhaps two, if your technique is as polished as that of Howard Teichmann and George S. Kaufman, authors of The Solid Gold Cadillac...

Author: By S. R. Barnett, | Title: The Solid Gold Cadillac | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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