Word: slanders
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...foot slogged along happily in the crowd's midst for half a mile. "What was it they promised if a Conservative government was elected?" he asked his fellow Tories. "War. Churchill the warmonger would plunge us into war. Well, it has not happened yet. That Socialist slander, which may have cost us 50 seats, is as dead as a doornail. Our opponents have got to think of another...
...Hollywood, French-born Cinemactress Corinne Calvert filed a $1,000,000 slander suit against Hungarian-born Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor for telling a columnist that Corinne was cockney English, not French at all. From London Zsa Zsa replied: "It's much easier to get a million dollars out of a rich husband than it is out of another actress." At week's end, to the entire satisfaction of her pressagent, Corinne recalled another galling insult: "Zsa Zsa said once that I had no breasts. Well, any time she feds like making a contest...
Died. William Roughead, 82, Scottish lawyer who seldom practiced because he was too absorbed in masterfully chronicling classic trials and crimes (mostly murders); of a cerebral hemorrhage and pneumonia; in London. A chapter in his Bad Companions, recounting a celebrated 1810 slander suit that followed a vindictive schoolgirl's false accusation against her two spinster teachers, was the inspiration for Playwright Lillian Hellman's 1934 Broadway hit, The Children's Hour. Fact-Writer Roughead was called by Novelist Dorothy Sayers "the best showman that ever stood before the door of a chamber of horrors...
...making progress-as big lies often do. In Western Europe it is weakening the moral weight of the U.S., especially among the neutralists. European officials are worried-and puzzled over how to challenge the slander. Last week U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson felt compelled to answer it publicly...
When the reporters reached McCarthy, he assumed a cold and haughty attitude. "If I sued everybody who called me dirty names . . . I'd be suing every Communist paper, every leading Communist in the country for libel and slander," he said. "If the President wants to engage in name-calling, he can go right ahead ... I can't imagine anyone being damaged by the President calling him dirty names." A few days later, McCarthy repeated his charges against Nash in a Milwaukee speech. "There is no immunity here," he said...