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Show JUDGE RULES 'BUM' NOT SLANDER, JUST j 'ILL-CHOSEN WORD NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (IN8 Calling a man a "bum 1 not slander, slan-der, but at th worst merely ths as of aa "abustv and lU-chosea" Word. Such wa th opinion of Justice Thomas C Kadlen Jr. today In dismissing dis-missing the 1100.000 slander suit j! brought by William Wsidberg. a I Brooklyn lawyer, against Mayor ! F. H. LaGuardia. Wsidberg I charged the mayor alandered him f! by calling him a "bum" whsn he arose to question LaGuardia during dur-ing a campaign rally speech. |