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...Carroll Righter, LL.D., astrologer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: KUDOS: Round 3 | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...have indoctrinated him with this naive reverence of people with "all the right things" behind their names and other basic American middle class values, as well as those particular perversions with which blacks have buttressed those values, such as an internal pecking order based on color-the whiter the righter. Williams says that "King himself apparently had some color hang-up... Of King's personal attitude towards women with dark skin, Person B (Williams does not further identify this source) told me: 'Martin often said that he was willing to fight and die for black people, but was damned...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Evacuations: The King God Didn't Save | 5/18/1971 | See Source »

...obviously "too sweet to come from New York." As for leonine Writer Auchincloss, Martha thought he could well pass for "an ambassador or a curator of a museum." No museum piece, Auchincloss has written cover stories on persons as varied as St. Paul, Architect Buckminster Fuller and Astrologer Carroll Righter. He found Martha Mitchell, subject of his 23rd TIME cover, "touching and full of verve." ∙ TIME's much deals with the whole distaff side of official life, and much of that An came from TIME'S own woman in Washington, Bonnie Angelo. power petite brunette with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Nov. 30, 1970 | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

Essentially Irrational. Astrology 14 is not exactly moving either heaven or earth within the trade. Established astrologers like Carroll Righter, who built reputations and fortunes on a 12-sign system, dismiss Schmidt's theories as "meaningless." U.S.C. Astronomy Professor Gibson Reaves points out that "astrology is essentially irrational, and to try to give it such a rational, scientific explanation would spoil it for most people, anyway." Buffs like Clark Stillman, salesman at a Greenwich Village occult bookstore, complain that Schmidt doesn't ascribe any "elements" (air, water, fire, etc.) to his new signs or enhance them "for esoteric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Revised Zodiac | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...same cannot be said, though, for the newspaper and magazine columns that have proved so popular. Righter's is the Leo's share of that questionable market, but it is only a share. He has some 17 rival newsprint astrologers. Outstanding among the competition is Sydney Omarr (225 papers), a highly intelligent younger astrologer who has given up most of his private practice to devote

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Astrology: Fad and Phenomenon | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

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