LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:
Doubleday & Company, Inc. appeals from a judgment of $2 compensatory damages and $125,000 punitive damages for libel and invasion of privacy entered by Judge Brieant on a jury verdict after a one-week trial in April 1976 in the Southern District. The plaintiff is A. E. Hotchner, a successful writer and lecturer who was a friend of Ernest Hemingway's and published a memoir about him, Papa Hemingway, in 1965. The suit involves unfavorable...
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