The Press: Fair Comment

In Baltimore, District Judge Roszel C. Thomsen ruled that when the Washington Times Herald quoted from defeated congressional candidate Mark Hammett's political pamphlet the passage reading, "My general erudition, social punctilio and physical pulchritude are of the highest order," the paper did not libel Hammett in commenting: "Anybody want to go with him steady?''

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