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...your issue of July 7 you were kind enough to carry a story concerning the Darling libel suit against The Taxi Weekly. In the centre, surrounded by the story, you carried a picture supposedly of myself. I have received so many favorable comments my concerning my "aggressive fighting improved face'' good that I looks, as think well it is as only fair to you that I send you for future use a photograph of myself instead of my double. The photograph that you ran, I believe, is that of Mr. Innis Brown, managing editor of The American Golfer...
...Joseph's paramount position as an art expert is acknowledged by all but other experts. His latest public appearance was two months ago when he paid a reputed $100,000 to Mrs. Andree Harm of Kansas City, Mo. to settle out of court her libel suit for five times that amount. __ He had hindered her selling a picture to the Kansas City Art Museum by asserting that her picture which she believes is da Vinci's La Belle Ferronierc was a copy of an original in the Louvre (TIME, Feb. 18, 1928 ct scq.). Commented Art Digest...
Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer & tycoon, defendant in a $1,000,000 patent suit brought against him by Herring-Curtiss Co. at Rochester, N. Y. was stricken suddenly with appendicitis. After four physicians had pronounced him in danger, the plaintiffs agreed to allow Defendant Curtiss to leave Rochester, go to Buffalo for an appendectomy, which, though badly needed, was successful...
Again it was Lavine who was credited with the first expose in 1927 of the $40,000,000 collapse of the Julian Corporation under an overissue of 4,000,000 shares of stock. There were wholesale indictments, many an imprisonment. Last October stockholders brought a $12,000,000 recovery suit. Miss Leontine Johnson, former secretary to Julian's President S. C. Lewis, was supposed to have inside information. Lavine was assigned to "ghostwrite" her personal stories for the Examiner. After the first story appeared, Lavine was arrested outside the office of Charles Crawford, Los Angeles political boss, with...
Apparently the hoaxing Southern hostess, still alive, had threatened a libel suit unless the story about her was eliminated, together with some uncomplimentary hearsay evidence on her social resourcefulness with which Mr. Wister embroidered his tale. Counsel for Macmillan advised the firm it would be less expensive to recall and revise than to face a libel action...