Chaplin v. National Broadcasting Co.

DIMOCK, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Charles Spencer Chaplin, a nationally prominent movie actor and film producer is suing the defendants, Hy Gardner, a newspaper columnist and radio commentator, and National Broadcasting Co., Inc., a radio broadcasting company, for the alleged injury caused him by a series of syndicated articles written by defendant Gardner and published in newspapers throughout the country and by references to plaintiff by defendant Gardner in two of his weekly radio programs which were broadcast by defendant National Broadcasting Co., Inc. One of these broadcasts involved…