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Died. Henrietta Richardson Robertson (pen name: Henry Handel Richardson), seventyish, Australian novelist (Ultima Thule) who lived in England but turned for subject matter to her native country; in Hastings, Sussex. A striver for Flaubertian impersonality, she achieved it so well that few readers guessed the author...
...Washington's grey, massive St. Patrick's Church last week, three prelates laid their hands on the brown-thatched head of kneeling Johannes Gunnarsson, consecrated him Vicar Apostolic of Iceland, now burgeoning with U. S. troops. By their act they gave Ultima Thule its first native Roman Catholic Bishop in 393 years. Last one was Jon Arason. He and his two sons lost their heads in 1550 opposing Denmark's King Christian III and his edict that the island adopt the motherland's Lutheran faith...
...imperialists and rightist Chileans sensed in General Peñaranda's Washington visit a bid for a Bolivian port on the Pacific (Arica on Chile's northern boundary). They recalled the poetic prayer addressed to Vice President Wallace during his recent visit by the La Paz daily Ultima Hora: "Oh, Henry Wallace, Prophet and Redeemer, Philosopher and friend of man . . . the oldest country of the South now hears the voice of Hirakocha, the God of the Andes: 'People of the mountains, look to the Ocean.... If the Ocean does not come to reach you, you should...
...Bolivian journalists are Luis Zavala, editor of La Razon; Frederico Guteierrez Granier, publisher of La Ultima Hora...
...budget's 1,172 pages, its 5 lb. 1 oz. of weight, there was no real relief for the oppressed, bursting mind of the U.S. taxpayer, now strained many times beyond what would have been ultima Thule for the Founding Fathers. But there were a few grim economies, not figured on by Franklin Roosevelt and the Budget Bureau: the U.S. may very soon be relieved of the present expenditure of $161,425 for expenses of the High Commissioner to the Philippines. And there will be no immediate need of the $39,450 appropriated for the care of lepers...