Word: slanderers
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Settled. The slander suit brought by Ernest Aldrich Simpson, onetime (1928-37) husband of the Duchess of Windsor, against Mrs. Joan Sutherland, London socialite; in London; out of court. At a luncheon party Mrs. Sutherland allegedly gossiped that Mr. Simpson had been "well paid" to let his wife divorce him. Unknown to Mrs. Sutherland, Mrs. Peter Kerr-Smiley, Mr. Simpson's sister, was sitting beside...
With tears, sneers, shouts and two swoons (by Sister Aimee), the case was argued, no one sticking very long to the main point. After brief deliberation, Judge Clarence Kincaid decided that Daughter Roberta had been slandered $2,000 worth, warned everyone concerned against continuing "such warfare." The advice was not heeded. This week Sister Aimee, like Father Divine (see above), was to appear again in court. This time she is defendant in a $1,080,000 slander suit brought by Sister Rheba. Since the line-up of witnesses will be about the same, the anti-Aimee faction took hope from...
...brilliant display of red, white, and blue lettering makes the jacket of Mary Borden's latest novel very attractive. Hidden away in this jacket is a book called "Action For Slander." Supposed to create an impression on sensation-seekers, this is a story of the hard-drinking, pleasure-loving upper class of England whose mixed loyalties involve the characters when it is a question of the other man's wife or a poker game...
Despite the popularity and readability of Miss Borden's previous novels, the future of "Action For Slander" does not seem bright. It lacks a plot of sufficient body to support the characterization which is, by and large, well-conceived. Her new effort makes fairly amusing reading, but little more can be said...
...cannot refrain from joining the crowd of eternal mudslingers at Germany, you should at least keep decent and take back your statement about the "appalling number of bastards" conceived in Hitler Camps (TIME, Feb. 8). Can you prove it? Then why the slander? If you had lived in Germany in the "Before-Hitler-Time," you would look at the Führer's achievement with different eyes-but you seem to think that 66,000,000 Germans are just fools...