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Oldtime Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries slapped a $150,000 slander suit against two small-time promoters for advertising a bingo-type game called "Conflict" played in "Jeffries' Barn" on his Burbank, Calif, ranch. Such goings-on, 75-year-old Jim Jeffries charged, would hurt his "good name...
...government had charged Burma Surgeon Gordon S. Seagrave with high treason, but government witnesses at his trial last week had little or nothing to say about treason, concentrated instead on other accusations against Seagrave, to wit, discourtesy, fornication and slander...
Last August, Owen (Ordeal by Slander) Lattimore declared that the U.S. should approve the seating of the Chinese Communists in U.N. In a speech in Chicago last week, Lattimore said: "If I were in the U.N. today I would vote against admitting Communist China...
...would not be right," muses Christopher, at a time when he is almost bowed to the ground by slander and persecution, "that a man exactly and scrupulously performing his duty to his sovereign, his native land and those it holds dear, should not be protected by a special Providence. And he is!" Aided by this inextinguishable faith, Christopher survives his enemies, but only after a siege of torments as destructive as Christian's in Pilgrim's Progress...
This week the even more vituperative Vishinsky was on his way to head the Soviet delegation to the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly that opens at Flushing Meadows on Sept. 19. In the Assembly, Soviet slander will be even less effective than in the Security Council. There, the Russians do not have the veto...