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PEP v. NEWSWEEK, INC.

No. 81 Civ. 1766 (MEL).

553 F.Supp. 1000 (1983)

Willie PEP, Plaintiff, v. NEWSWEEK, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

January 5, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. McKeon, Hartford, Conn., for plaintiff.

Rogers & Wells, New York City, for defendant; Stephen Froling, Nicholas J. Jollymore, New York City, of counsel.

LASKER, District Judge.

This action for libel arises from the publication of an article entitled "The Fix", in the July 30, 1980 issue of Inside Sports, a magazine then published by Newsweek, Inc. The author of the article was Paul Good, a freelance journalist; the editor was Peter Bonventre, Inside Sports' Managing Editor.

The article infers that Willie Pep, a former championship boxer, "fixed" a fight held on February 26, 1954.

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