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TIME, Dec. 25, p. 5, states that in the seven centuries when Sweden ruled what is now Finland, where the Swedes controlled the cities, Swedish names were given to such cities. In that manner, Helsinki (Finnish) became Helsingfors (Swedish...
...effort to "clear the name of the American Student Union in regard to Communism," Alan Gottlieb '41, President of the Harvard chapter, issued a call last night to the national membership asking for a referendum taking a stand on the Russian invasion of Finland...
...Defeated, by the one-sided vote of 322-to-49, a motion to condemn Russia's at tack on Finland as "a clear act of aggres sion...
...intricate, tasty bit of choreographic icing by husky Dancer Lew Christensen; 2) City Portrait, a dour tenement-street pantomime choreographed by Dancer Eugene Loring. Dance critics liked Charade's tricky trip ping and whimsey, found City Portrait somewhat incoherent. But Kirstein 's home made ballet, like Finland's home-made army, appeared able to hold its own against the Russian product...
...Fighting north of Lake Laatokka in Finland, a Finnish officer and nine men saw an angel in the sky facing Russia, its arms outstretched to protect the Finns...