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...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette one morning last week, George Leader found a prediction for his sign of the zodiac, Capricorn: "This is your day to get together with every single individual who has any interest in you." George Leader had no trouble taking this advice. It was his inauguration day as Pennsylvania's first Democratic governor in 16 years. "This," said Leader, making a refreshing admission in his inaugural speech, "is a post I sought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Five Governors | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Married. Henry Miller, 62, onetime Left Bank expatriate turned California recluse, whose sex-obsessed novels (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer), after being banned in the U.S., became avant-garde favorites in France; and Evelyn Byrd McClure, 29, Hollywood artist-actress; each for the third time; in Carmel Highlands, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...Kiss and Tell and The Moon Is Blue at the same old stand, but with greatly lowered standing. In A Girl Can Tell, Playwright Herbert, still concerned with discreetly amorous young girls, is still dallying with dalliance, still writing under the sign of Virgo in the spirit of Capricorn. But this time his hand is tired, and his touch seems coarse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...despite all the precautions taken to protect the books, Miller's "Tropic of Capricorn" has been lost anyway...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Widener 'Inferno' Guards Choice Collection of Erotica, Miscellany | 4/25/1952 | See Source »

...Commonwealth of Massachusetts or throughout the country, are harbored in the "Inferno" for obvious reasons. All works on contraception are sent to the Cage, since they are banned in this State. The unexpurgated edition of D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover," and Henry Miller's "Tropic of Capricorn," banned in the United States, find refuge here...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Widener 'Inferno' Guards Choice Collection of Erotica, Miscellany | 4/25/1952 | See Source »

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