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...with his wife, a wire-haired fox terrier, a second-hand Ford, a list of modestly priced Manhattan hotels-and an empty wallet. It was the most significant trip he had made outside his native Midwest since his teens, when he had attended a Y.M.C.A. conference in Finland as the official representative of the "Hi-Y" boys of Ohio. Many of his fellow executives think he has retained, to this day, an air of Y.M.C.A. earnestness and unblinking sincerity. One of them describes him as "just a country boy with a Madison Avenue gloss...
...front room of a sprawling, neo-Tudor house in the English village of Burgess Hill one night last week, a husky young man & woman from the Soviet zone of Germany, a coffee-skinned youth from India, a trim girl from Finland and a swarthy boy from France were hard at work studying the Bible. In the chapel at the rear of the house, a music class was in progress; a Berliner was at the piano, an English girl played the viola; a boy from Silesia whittled away at the violin. In a small side room a pink-cheeked Yugoslav...
After visiting her old friend and teacher Jean Sibelius in Finland, bright-eyed Antonio Brico, 48, Denver conductor, flew on to French Equatorial Africa to see another old musical friend, Organist-Physician Albert Schweitzer, who had cabled: "You've always wanted to see my hospital. Get yourself a yellow-fever shot and a sun helmet and come...
...governor could not quite see what the fuss was about. He was "no longer intrigued by the sight of an undressed woman," he said somewhat irrelevantly, and furthermore a magazine called Finlandia Pictorial, then & there on his desk, showed all sorts of public nude statues in Finland. "We all know," said he, "that the Finns are a moral people." But Tom Mabry, a Democrat, was up for reelection, and arranged to hear both sides: the artists, and three churchmen, led by the head of the local Ministerial Alliance, a Protestant group...
What with an uncomfortable closeness to Russia, increased Communist activity on every side, recurrent strikes and an economic situation that would not settle down, the summer of 1950 was enough to drive Finns to drink. Fact is, it did. A member of Finland's Alcohol Monopoly Board last week revealed that liquor consumption in Finland for June, July and August of this year showed an increase of 20, 22 and 30% over the same months...