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FIRESTONE v. TIME, INC.

No. 41868.

271 So.2d 745 (1972)

Mary Alice FIRESTONE, Petitioner, v. TIME, INC., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

December 20, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Montgomery, Jr., of Howell, Kirby, Montgomery, D'Aiuto, Dean and Hallowes, Jacksonville, for petitioner.

William S. Frates and Larry S. Stewart, of Frates, Floyd Pearson, Stewart, Proenza & Richman, Miami, and Harold R. Medina, Jr., of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, for respondent.

McNULTY, District Judge.

We review this day a libel action arising out of a publication in the "Milestones" column of Time magazine relating to a divorce between petitioner and her husband. Our jurisdiction is predicated on conflict which will hereinafter appear.

The assailed publication is as follows:

"Divorced. By Russell A. Firestone Jr., 41, heir to the tire fortune: Mary Alice Sullivan Firestone, 32, his third wife; a onetime Palm Beach schoolteacher...

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