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...Attorney General's office has won its suit to have Tropic of Cancer declared obscene, and the book is now permanently banned in Massachusetts...
London brought in literary critics, such as Mark Schorer, Harry Moore, and Harry T. Levin, who had praised Tropic of Cancer's literary merit. Also, the defense raised some constitutional objections to the Massachusetts obscenity statute, arguing that the hearings were a violation of the First and Fourteenth amendment constitutional rights...
...publisher of Henry Miller's controversial novel said yesterday that the Massachusetts treatment of Tropic of Cancer was "the civilized exception" to a general pattern of unofficial harassment on the part of local police throughout the United States...
Barney Rosset, President of Grove Press Inc., felt encouraged that Massachusetts had at least given the book a trial. He of course disagreed with Judge Goldberg's verdict, but was pleased that it took the judge six weeks to decide that Tropic was obscene...
Action is being taken against Tropic in Chicago suburbs, Marin County, San Francisco, and Hartford, as well as Dallas. New Jersey, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire are also moving to ban the book...