Word: finn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Munich? It looked last week as if U. S. opinion was on a day-to-day basis about the war. Lanky (6 ft. 6 in.) Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, Abe Lincoln in Illinois) tuned in on a Finn-Russian war broadcast last Christmas Day, got so excited he wrote a play in January which Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne tried out in March and opened last week in New York City: "There Shall Be No Night" (see p. 52). Columnist Raymond Clapper viewed with alarm...
...crops. Boliver has to take it or leave the land; he takes it. Living up to it is another matter. The latter half of the novel develops a desperate contest between two types of land-lover - the owner and the enjoyer. For perhaps the first time since Huckleberry Finn, the squatter's anarchic, slovenly, sensual life is presented as enviable. Meanwhile Bushman's son Tarvin and Subrinea Tussie, the length, strength and brownness of whose legs are too often, too favorably mentioned, work out a romance. Tarvin talks like this: "Good mornin'. I'm glad...
John H. Page '43, Robert Sherwood '43, Robert A. Cushman '43, and Finn Ferner sp. also represented the Crimson team, which chalked up 343 points to 350 for M. I. T. and 346 for Brown...
...Philadelphia last fortnight a 13-year-old Finn, looking too tall for his bare knees and short pants, listened to Eugene Ormandy rehearsing the Philadelphia Orchestra in Jean Sibelius' surging Finlandia. Much moved, Finn Heimo Haitto (pronounced hay-moe high-toe) sat down and wrote his good friend Sibelius all about it. Last week the boy had more to tell the old composer. Again bare-kneed, and sailorcollared, Heimo Haitto tucked a Guarnerius fiddle under his beardless chin, made his bigtime U. S. debut with Ormandy and the orchestra in the plushy Academy of Music. Critics liked his easy...
Sixth and seventh also went to Dartmouth with Tobin and Halsey turning in 2.55.4 and 2.56.4 records. The next six places went to the Crimson in the following order: Finn Ferner, 2.58.2; Wakeman, 2.59.0; Winship 2.59.2, tied with Hunter of Dartmouth; Thomas, 3.02.4, and Skinner...