Word: suede
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In all his columns each week, Gossipist Miller ticks off more than 300 names of celebrities against a catalogue of follies and foibles that range from adultery to vandalism. Yet Miller has never been horsewhipped or even sued for libel-probably because nobody takes him that seriously. He has no...
* Most potent: Statuesque Soprano Jean Tennyson, wife of the late Celanese Corp. of America President Camille Dreyfus, who sang for years on radio's Celanese-sponsored Great Moments in Music. Irked stockholders finally sued, said Jean's warbling cost Celanese $1,000,000 a year. Jean quit, turned...
June is the month for marriage. Fortnight ago the United Presbyterians and Northern Presbyterians joined (TIME, June 24), and this week in Cleveland the Congregational Christian Churches (membership: 1,342,000) and the Evangelical and Reformed Church (membership: 775,000) merged to become the United Church of Christ. The merger...
Smith's decree was flatly rejected by the New York Times, which has only token circulation in Britain. Another U.S. newspaper distributed in Britain was expected to agree not to run any stories on British criminal cases without first clearing the copy with Smith's. Other U.S. publications...
In Britain, the courts still tend to view defamatory or contemptuous statements by newspapers more gravely than their American counterparts. British newspapers seldom win a libel suit; U.S. papers win at least as many as they lose. In the U.S., keyhole-peeping columnists are rarely sued for running exaggerated or...