Word: sues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Athlete Jim Thorpe decided it was time to settle one point about the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm (after which he was disqualified as an amateur because he had played professional baseball) and threatened to sue the A.A.U. It was bad enough, he said, for the Olympic Committee to take back the medals he had won, "but I do hold that the officials had no right to take back the bronze bust of himself that King Gustav V of Sweden gave me or the jewel-studded silver Viking ship the Czar of Russia asked me to accept. They belong...
...were a mimeographed copy of a speech, he smiled and said, "Why, they do your work for you." Wrote Correspondent Bucknell: "Bucknell's reaction to said smile: something on the order of a bobby-soxer suddenly being confronted with Gregory Peck." Our entire Letters column in this is sue deals with only one subject - our recent essay on "The Younger Generation." Approximately 80% of the letters we received came from the people we were writing about, those in the 18-to-28 age group. Their volubility seems almost like an effort to disprove one thesis advanced in the article...
...Communists are proud of Harvard Professor John K. Fairbank," he cried, and in the next breath, "Concealed Communists are the greatest menace that the United States has ever faced!" The connection was crystal clear, but this indirect method makes it impossible for accused men to sue for libel...
Next morning in court, Franchot Tone pleaded innocent to Florabel's charges, later dictated an apology to Florabel to other newsmen, but still threatened to sue the News for Florabel's stories. Florabel's reply was to wave a wire from News President F. M. Flynn: "He can't do that to us. Remember the old newspaper motto: 'Print the news and raise hell...
This was definitely not cricket. Last fortnight the South African Cricket Board, without explanation, fired Rowan from the team. Last week, while local sportwriters and cricket fans were demanding that the board break its stony silence, Rowan was planning to sue it for "smirching my good name." What's more, said he indignantly, "it's not cricket...