Word: finland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through an elaborate clandestine ritual, a meeting was arranged in a Union Square cafeteria with a stranger who told Burdett: "We have a mission for you in Finland," which was then fighting the Russian invasion. The stranger: the late Soviet spy chief, Jacob Golos. Reporter Burdett, financed by the party, arranged to travel as an unpaid roving correspondent, accredited by the Brooklyn Eagle...
...orchestra's dampened debut before France's TV watchers was a cloud-high point of a seven-week European tour that had already won raves in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and England. As the French cameras blinked on, Conductor Sirpo led the girls through a solemn, contemplative Corelli air, a Vivaldi piece (with violin solo by tall, blonde Claire Hodgkins), some modern variations by Alexander Tansman and an allegro by Stamitz. They played with fire and discipline that astonished their listeners-and played everything without a sheet of music. When they had done, the TV crew crowded around...
Conductor Sirpo abandoned his own conservatory in Finland when the Russians invaded in 1939 and headed for the U.S. Since 1945, he has been teaching at Portland's Presbyterian Lewis and Clark College, where as many as 70 students brave his celebrated sternness to play in his student orchestra. One reason: beneath the rigorous vigor lies a puckish streak that relieves the direst stress. For example, Sirpo was once felled on the podium by a minor stroke, and somebody shrieked that he had been shot. As the cops arrived, he regained his speech and muttered solemnly: "My wife...
...Blocked by the Soviet Union: Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan. Jordan. Nepal, Portugal, Korea. Opposed by the West: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary. Mongolian People's Republic, Rumania. Up for consideration: Laos, Libya, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Viet Minh, North Korea. Not interested: Switzerland, which thinks the U.N. would "endanger our neutrality...
...Lenin, arriving at the Finland station in the famous "sealed train" in the middle of the night while a band blares the Marseillaise and a searchlight knifes the sky and startles the crowd. "Lenin came, or rather ran, into the waiting room. He wore a round cap, his face looked frozen, and there was a magnificent bouquet in his hands." Lenin toys with his flowers, stares at the ceiling, and gives a short pep talk, ending with "Long live the worldwide Socialist revolution...