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Dear Time-Reader Jorma ja Eera-Pekka Paavolainen is a TIME-subscriber in Finland. How to fit this jawbreaker of a name on TIME'S standard subscription record cards is the job of a crew of girls in TIME'S Denver circulation office, which handles records for most of our subscribers in military service and for many overseas TIME readers...
...Finnish subscriber is a bookselling firm called Rautatiekirjakauppa OY, a name which just fitted the 22-character limit. But the same company is also TIME'S newsstand distributor in Finland, and its name and address (Koydenpunojankatu 2. Helsinki) is a constant challenge to the stick-to-it-iveness of typists who handle their correspondence...
Disappointing Eagle. But his pamphlets had caught the eye of Lenin. That year young Djugashvili met the famous Lenin at a party conference in Finland. At that point (as today), Lenin was a certified god in the world Pantheon of social progress, but hard-boiled Djugashvili was not impressed: "I had hoped to see the mountain eagle of our party," he wrote. "How great was my disappointment to see a most ordinary looking man, below average height, in no way distinguishable from ordinary mortals...
Asking Red Rumania to halt the Wiima at dockside was pointless. So the U.S. turned to Finland, whose government dislikes Communism but fears to show it too openly. The Finns bravely promised that no more fuel oil will be shipped to Red China in Finnish bottoms, but they couldn't stop the Wiima: she is immune from government interference while on the high seas...
John Moors Cabot, 51, a veteran career diplomat whose last post was Minister to Finland, arrived this week in Caracas, Venezuela to head the U.S. delegation to the Inter-American Economic and Social Council. Careerman Cabot, an affable old Latin American hand who has served in posts outside the hemisphere since 1947, is almost sure to become the new U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs...