JUDGE ACCEPTS WORD OF DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Reeeived Friday, 7.0 > p.m. NEW \ OliK, Jan. 15. Federal Judge John Bright, todav dismissed a plagiarism suit against the Knglish author Daphne du' Maurier which alleged that tlie best selling novel ' ' Rebecca " was based partly on works by the late Edw>na Levin Macdonald. Ile found that Miss du Maurier never had access to the two works oi' Arrs. Macdonahl "Blind Windows" and "I PJnnned To Munlor Aly Hnsband,' and added: "There is nothing in Miss du Maurier 's teUiniony which j seemed to me false or iniprobuble and I accejit it. "
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 January 1948, Page 5
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