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...asks who in the world was Alf Landon and who knew anything about him two years ago. I retort, who ever heard of Jim Farley two years...
...that he got 400 stillborn babies to breathe by injecting a drug called alpha-lobeline hydrochloride into the vein of their umbilical cords while they were held upside down, fellow obstetricians pounced upon him. Objection No. 1: Dr. Wilson used a drug which the A.M.A. has not approved. His retort: "We must not let babies die just because the A.M.A. has not approved the drug." Objection No. 2: He did not first try such standard methods of stimulating breath in the newborn as blowing into their mouths, slapping their rumps with a wet towel, tossing them, artificial respiration. Dr. Wilson...
...truth but privilege was the News-Telegram's defense. Its counsel argued that a citizen attacked in one newspaper should be legally privileged to retort through another newspaper with a defense which might include a counterattack on the attacker. That seemed fair enough to the jury but the trial judge, who said he had never heard of such a defense, set the verdict aside. The News-Telegram carried an appeal to the Oregon Supreme Court, last month got a unanimous verdict in its favor...
Mightily pleased with the precedent thus established, Counsel Hahn nonetheless cautioned Scripps editors "that in order to avail one's self of the right of SELF DEFENSE in libel, the person rebutting an assailant should bear in mind that his retort MUST BE A NECESSARY PART OF HIS DEFENSE, FAIRLY ARISING OUT OF THE CHARGES HE IS ANSWERING. In other words common sense governs the situation. For instance, if an assailant were to throw a small book at you, you would not be legally justified in firing a gun in self defense of your person. . . . So it is with...
...behind the mike. When given scope, as it is during the football season and in clubs, the tongue wins bordes of admirers s liberally with enemies. For example, when Ted Minnesota's 35 first stringers might be bench was at Princeton, or some such. Or when he t forked retort off-duty at critics or anyone else brushes with the man who has been ten years be the mile...