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...Finnish war put Mussolini's hand on many a pressure valve. He made a show of sending planes to Finland over Germany's protest and territory. When the Allies seemed on a spot, he called off the British trade talks, got into a jam with Britain over coal, in the end managed to have most of his coal and burn Ribbentrop too. Last week he had everyone utterly bewildered. There was talk of sending an Ambassador back to Moscow, even though Premier Molotov was making such aspersive remarks about Italy's Albanian grab that the Italian press...
When curly-haired, 29-year-old Taisto Maki landed in the U. S. two months ago, he was considered the world's distance-running nonpareil. Five times last summer, in his native Finland, he had broken world's records at distances ranging from two miles to 10,000 meters (a little over six miles)-"unbreakable" marks once held by his idol, coach and traveling companion, famed Paavo Nurmi...
...months ago, Greg Rice was an in conspicuous U. S. runner. But suddenly, within a fortnight he set new world's indoor records for two miles and three miles. Instead of an affair as one-sided as the Russian invasion of Finland, the Garden race looked like a square shake, particularly at Maki's favorite distance, three miles. Rice's style sports a fast sprint to the tape. Maki's formula is an almost imperceptible acceleration, pulling farther & farther away from his opponent un til he has an invulnerable lead. If Rice could dog Maki...
...yards in front of onetime Record-Holder Don Lash, who had also whizzed past the Finn. Rice's time (13:52.3) not only broke the world's record he set six weeks ago, but was only ten seconds short of the mark Maki made outdoors in Finland last summer...
While track experts predicted an unprecedented boom of three-mile racing in the U. S., Maki's sympathizers (of whom there are many) explained his defeat: 1) he had come to the U. S. directly from the Karelian front, 2) he had attended too many banquets "for Finland," 3) he was unaccustomed to running on small saucers and board floors. Let Maki meet Rice outdoors some time* and track fans will see the real Flying Finn, they added...