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...Last week's libel news: 1) Washington Times-Herald Publisher Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson withdrew her $250,000 suit against Columnist-Radio Commentator Walter Winchell, who had criticized a Times-Herald editorial. One reason: she had learned that "Winchell's contract with his radio sponsor . . . allows him to escape payment of any judgment that may be rendered against him. ..." 2) When New York Daily News Washington Bureau Chief John O'Donnell's libel suit against Publisher J. David Stern's Philadelphia Record, which had called O'Donnell a "Naziphile," was tried several months...
...Fletcher's Castoria (soothing, laxative) was last week in the biggest dither in the drug trade. A mysterious emetic had cropped up in some of the medicine and nauseated a few takers. The preparation's makers, the Centaur Co., a division of Sterling Drug, Inc., temporarily withdrew Castoria from the market...
...southern French sector and the Eighth Army's sector, the story was the same. First the Germans withdrew. They fell back all around Pont du Fahs. Then they counterattacked, and the Allies were stalled...
...those of you who weren't fortunate enough to attend--well, you really missed a wonderful time. The climax came when Professor Chaffee very solemnly, and with a great deal of ceremony, withdrew a slide rule from its case and proceeded to lead the orchestra--a very distinguished orchestra at that...
...Patton had not been ordered to try to cut Rommel off, he had certainly been given the task of harassing his flank as he withdrew northward. This Patton had not been able to do; he must have had his doubts as to who was winning the first round of the Rommel-v.-Patton match...