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...system of scoring, Russia ran off with the seventh Winter Olympics. In the unofficial arithmetic of sideline experts, the Soviets won with 121 points. Second: Austria, 78½ third: Finland, 66½. But strangely, it was a group of grim and driving U.S. females known in Cortina as "the Skating Mothers" who had the most to cheer about. Like mothers of most virtuosos, they drove their children hard, with fierce jealousy of their rivals. "They look like women who were born 150 years too late," said one newsman. "Otherwise. they would have been shouldering Madame Defarge away from her front...
...place from third to sixth. By week's end unofficial team scores put Russia's first Winter Olympics team well on its way to its first Olympic championship. Scores: Russia 60, Austria (with a first, second, third and sixth in the men's giant slalom) 29, Finland 15, Italy 15, Sweden 14, Germany 10, Switzerland...
After two years and two score amateur fights, Patterson found himself at Helsinki, Finland, wearing the blue blazer of the U.S. Olympic team. Floyd won the null championship with impressive ease. "He was fully as sensational when he mounted a dais to receive the victory award-he put one hand on his stomach, the other against his back, and gave the crowd a deep, dancing-school...
...present, the United States has only six and one-half points in the unofficial scoring, good for a tie for seventh place with Switzerland. Russia leads with 46 points, followed by Finland and Italy with 15, Germany with 10, Austria with 9, and Sweden with 9. The figures are based on the 10-5-4-3-2-1 scoring system...
...Stewart H. Clifford, Dr. Monroe D. Eaton, Dr. R. Cannon Eley, Enders, Dr. Maxwell Finland, Dr. William T. Green, Janeway, Dr. Brooks Ryder '40, Dr. Louis Weinstein, Dr. Weller, and Dr. Conrad Wesselhoeft...