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Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre was in touch with our stringer correspondent in Norway, who was, in turn, establishing contact with a Norwegian whaling fleet for a future Medicine story. Across Laguerre's desk came other messages from Finland, where our stringer correspondent had been instructed to watch visiting Soviet Minister Anastas Mikoyan, a likely news figure in the near future. Incoming research from Sweden was transmitted to New York for this week's cover story on Ernest Hemingway (see BOOKS...
Winning the international race against Finland a fortnight ago, Swedish Forestry Supervisor Bertil Norman made few mistakes, ran himself ragged and covered the course in two hr. 16 min. 37 sec. Last week, running over a different course in the Swedish national championships, Norman lost 20 minutes searching for the third control point, and wound up 115th in a field of 157. The winner: 27-year-old Engineer Nils Lange, who finished 99th in last year's championships...
...people last spring came in penitent droves, and 38,447 pledged themselves as converts. Even when they do not understand his language or share his American tradition, people flock to hear him speak short sentences to be echoed in their own language by an interpreter. In Scandinavia, Finland, Holland. Germany and France this summer, 296,600 came. Since 1949, Billy Graham has preached personally to 12 million people and brought 200,000 of them to various stages of Christian commitment...
MOONSCAPE (Putnam; $3.50)."With clumsy fingers I undid two buttons of her frock, slipped my hand beneath it and ..." And Mika Waltari, whose bestsellers (The Egyptian, The Adventurer, The Wanderer) would be considerably shorter if his heroines knew about zippers, is off meandering again, this time in his native Finland. This volume consists of five not-very-short stories. The title yarn tells what happens to the unbuttoned country girl: she grows up to be a movie star with a boudoir-view of life ("There are no impotent men, only unskilled women, don't you think?"). Another story...
...Bern, Switzerland, a band of tight-lipped Russians rolled up an overwhelming lead in the fifth European Games (Europe's off-year Olympics) despite their wrong-way marathoner, Ivan Filin. who dogmatically swung left as he entered the stadium for the last lap, and lost out to Finland's Veikko Karvonen, who had no qualms about right-hand turns. In what may be his last appearance on the track, Britain's Roger Bannister loafed to an easy victory in the 1,500-meter run. His time...