Bedekovich v. Hearst Corp.

The alleged libel in this action was an article that appeared in the New York Mirror of April 27, 1954, which bore the headline “ Video Widower’s Wife Shows Movie Mouse.” The story went on to report that a Queens housewife, who had promised a city magistrate four days earlier to forego the late, late show on television to preserve her marriage, appeared in court to complain that her husband had given her a black eye because she had taken the children to a movie. The term ‘ ‘ movie *859mouse ” was used by the reporter to characterize succinctly the condition of plaintiff’s eye and to attribute the…