Press: Erratic, Bohemian

"The court is well aware that reporters in the City of New York commonly lead an erratic and Bohemian existence, and what might be libelous when said of a merchant or professional man, will not be held libelous when said of one leading such an existence."

Thus, it was learned last week, pleaded counsel for Publishers Doubleday, Doran & Co. in asking dismissal of a $150,000 libel suit brought in Manhattan by Neil Callahan, onetime reporter for the New York Sun. Callahan claimed that he and his wife, whose name was Hester Robinson, were...