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...most maps, the name is British Honduras (capital: Belize). Latin American cartographers call it Belice, territorio en disputa. In its hazy history it has been the haunt first of pirates preying on the Spanish Main, later of rumrunners, sometimes of German submarines. On the swampy, 17 4-mile shore live 63,000 Negroes and Indians, a handful of whites. Back of the capital, greasy rivers reach under forests of cedar, mahogany and chicle-bearing sapodilla to Peten, wildest part of Guatemala...
...Sojourning (indefinitely) in Paris: Mrs. Claude Pepper, wife of Florida's plangent Senator. As representative of the People's Mandate Committee, Mrs. Pepper will haunt the coulisses of the Conference until she has interviewed all the leaders of the 21 delegations. First to be bagged: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who told her that he will recommend postponement of the U.N. General Assembly (now scheduled to meet on Sept. 23 in New York City) "until the end of the year." Mrs. Pepper also asked the Foreign Minister what he considered the chief stumbling block to the Peace Conference...
Occasional Glimpses. The most terrifying "powers" are those that have no name, no form. They can be glimpsed occasionally, but never described; they haunt you night & day, often organizing the whole world into an implacable conspiracy of persecution against you. It is these unknown powers that condemn you to be treated by a doctor you instantly recognize as a notorious murderer. They are the ones who arrange the subtle changes in weather that oppress you so much, who turn your home into an "ambush," who make your simplest acts and thoughts incomprehensible...
Rent Controls. In Pana, Ill., Landlord J. C. Davis, bent on shaking off his tenants, had his two sons haunt them with unearthly nocturnal shrieks and chain-clankings. In Weldon, N.C., Landlord J. W. Williams used dynamite, blew out a lot of flooring but not his eight tenants. In Hapeville, Ga., Landlord R. L. Ballard failed to budge his tenants by tearing the roof...
...frontpage manifestos always been rare in it. In the great Charles A. Dana's day it frequently supported Democrats, and in Groceryman Frank Munsey's time (1916-25), violent eruptions which staffers called "Munsey proclamations" appeared with regularity on the face of the Sun. Great ghosts still haunt its dim corridors. Courtly Keats Speed, a great-nephew of Poet John Keats, still puts out his cigaret when he enters the newsroom, in habitual deference to a rule of the Munsey era, long since repealed. He and City Editor Edmond Bartnett, after 25 years, still address each other...