The Daily Mirror suit jury found in Liberace’s favor on only “one imputation” of the article. “The other statements in the article including Cassadra’s long string of colorful adjectives, were ‘fair comment’ it decided.”
The $22K was the largest libel award in memory in that court.
An early Mad Magazine puzzle page featured a series of ‘What’s Wrong with This Picture’ puzzles.
One of these showed people watching a radio, listening to a TV, etc. – everything was backwards.
In plain view was a sports page headline reading: Liberace Wins by KO in the 5th.
IIRC, ‘effeminate’ and ‘not tough’ were pretty widely accepted code for ‘gay’ in that era.