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When Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke sued Confidential magazine for $3,000,000 for libel, United Feature Syndicate's Columnist Inez Robb sounded a hearty bravo. Wrote Newshen Robb: "Miss Duke has just struck a blow for liberty, freedom and decency . . . against the most putrid of the so-called 'exposé' magazines now defiling newsstands. Let us hope that . . . the gutter journalists responsible draw a stiff jail or penitentiary sentence. . .
"What is really disturbing," Inez Robb went on, "is the discovery that the [U.S.], despite free public education and a high literacy rate, contains so many morons who will...
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