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...beneficiary need fear that one square mile of his territory will be annexed, no alien secret police will stalk him by day and by night, no occupying army will consume his meagre food, no convoys of prisoners will be deported to Siberia...
...reason for this strange state of affairs is that the empty Copacabana apartments, like many others in the great modern buildings that line Rio's beaches and stalk its hillsides (TIME, Feb. 25, 1946), are owned by speculators who have no intention of becoming landlords. Tax laws are on the side of the speculator. The only real-estate tax an owner pays is 10% on rental value, established after an apartment is completed-and a stepladder in an entrance hall is evidence enough that the building is not yet done...
...Sorrow, Sing. The Colums saw Joyce most often in Paris, after Ulysses had appeared and he was working on Finnegans Wake. Already half-blind and often down on his luck, he expected "a lot of attention and help of all kinds from his friends." Now & then he would stalk unannounced into the Colums' apartment, sit down at the piano and begin to sing. "When anything hit him hard, Joyce had relief in singing, and all his songs were...
...dried as a stalk in an old corn shock. Big, conservative, conscientious Gustav Theodore Kuester (TIME, April 29) had left his rich Cass County acres and no head of first-rate hogs in the care of a friend and moved into smoggy Des Moines to do his biennial bit of legislating. The 98 Republicans in the 108-member House promptly and unanimously elected him Speaker...
...were just about to go into their routine. (Sample, as seen later by a TIME reporter-Singh: "Who're you?" Uno: "Oh, I'm Uno." Singh: "Do you have to use many languages out there?" Uno: "Oh, I get along on me Irish.") Then who should stalk in but austere U.S. Delegate John Foster Dulles. He whispered a discreet, wholly unofficial word in Singh's ear. Sir Maharaj called off the show...