Word: finn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel quite a lot about a country from the way its people talk to you. In Russia almost everybody was cautious about talking to a stranger. In Finland, right next door, they tell you what they think-even about Russia. Said one Finn, over a weak beer: "It's too bad. Russians are often such fine people individually. We have many things in common; we both like to drink. But get them in a mass and they go crazy...
There is no crazy Russian mass in Finland today. The Russians on the Control Commission have been cut to a mere 200. Every Finn I met wanted to get along with Russia, but not many of them liked the Soviet system. The Finns are doing their best to meet all armistice and peace treaty terms, including the highest per capita reparations of any World War II loser. Last year, reparations took one-fourth of Finland's total industrial production and more than one-eighth of her national income...
Studio One (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). The Mysterious Mickey Finn, Elliot Paul's mystery story about the Lost Generation's highjinks in low Paris dives...
...Harold Finn, of 90 Willow Street, Chelsea, Mass., a graduate of the New Preparatory School, Cambridge, Mass...
These photographs were taken by Maynard M. Miller '43 and William R. Latady, members of the seven-man expedition which scaled the peak, Alaska's second highest, last summer. Latady, a president of the HMC, left Cambridge recently on an Antarctic voyage with Commander Finn Ronney. His films, 2800 feet of them, are all 16mm color photos, covering all aspects of the climb...