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...belatedly as Westerners may like to think. Before World War I only four countries (Australia, Finland, New Zealand, Norway) allowed women's suffrage. The U.S. granted women full suffrage in 1920, Britain not until 1928, France and Italy not until the end of World...
...mind may not have been on his targets. As a West German newspaperman watched, Calcai rushed from a shop where his Communist guard was buying some bananas. The newsman took him in tow. That night Calcai stayed at the home of the business manager of one of Finland's top liberal dailies. Then he dropped out of sight...
...California's Cy Young, who spoiled Finland's hopes in the javelin with a throw of 242 ft. 0.79 in., breaking (by 5 ft. 6.04 in.) a 20-year-old Olympic record for the first U.S. javelin victory in Olympic history. Second: Bill Miller of the U.S. Marines...
Carrying aloft the blazing Olympic torch, he circled the 400-meter track, with an easy, familiar stride. From the spectators came a delighted roar of applause for one of the most unforgettable of all Olympians: Finland's Paavo Nurmi, now 55, and in his Olympic days (1920-28) the greatest distance runner in the world. Stopping at the base of the giant urn, Nurmi stretched high to set it ablaze with fire relayed across Europe from Olympia. The 1952 Olympics had begun...
...series of children's concerts for a while, he resolved to try Europe. In Paris, after his debut in a radio concert, the guest-conducting offers began to flock in. Last season he led 32 concerts, and he has conducted in nine countries, from Israel to Finland. Next season he will be a resident conductor of the Goteborg (Sweden) Symphony...