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...During Finland's gallant, hopeless "winter war" of 1939-40, Kallio traded his knife for a bayonet, went after the Russian invaders as a private. His father, Kyösti Kallio, was President of Finland...
...Kallio is one of America's top portrait sculptors. He first gained fame in Washington with a posthumous portrait of James Forrestal, which now stands in the Mall entrance to the Pentagon. Kallio read everything he could find about Forrestal, decided he resembled "a character in the Kalevala [Finland's national epic] who worked hard all his life, was good, and finally stabbed himself...
Seminar leaders report that there has been no decrease in the demand by young European intellectuals and professional men for admission to the school. Some of the students, however, come to Salzburg at great risk. Those from Berlin, Vienna, and Finland are especially apprehensive, since all of their activities are watched by their Communist neighbors in their native countries...
Died. Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, 83, most revered patriot of Finland, sometime President (1944-46), leader of his country's armies in three wars of independence against Soviet Russia; after an abdominal operation; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Educated in czarist Russia, Mannerheim became a courtier and bodyguard to Nicholas II, a lieutenant general in his army. During the Red revolution, he fought for Finland's independence with help from Germany. When the Red army invaded Finland in 1939, the field marshal held his Mannerheim Line positions for three months. In 1941, Hitler's invasion of Russia gave...