Word: finne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians the terms are clear: resumption of the frontier established in 1940 after the first Russo-Finnish War. If the Finns could have Viipuri back and the Saimaa Canal which floats lumber to the Gulf of Finland, many believed they would accept these terms. Paasikivi was the only Finn with a chance of talking Stalin out of Viipuri...
...further Christine's career he steals the master key of the opera house, puts a Mickey Finn into Christine's rival's drink, sends poison-pen letters, strangles a soprano and her maid, saws a huge chandelier from its chain during the performance of an opera in which Christine's rival is singing. The hard-pressed Surete (French FBI) ultimately has to call on Composer Franz Liszt (German Shakespearian Actor Fritz Leiber) to aid them in bagging the cagey Phantom...
...since Finn Paavo Nurmi's memorable visit nearly a generation ago has a European athlete started for the U.S. with a better build-up than Gunder Hägg. Last summer he broke ten world's records at distances ranging from 1,500 to 5,000 meters (slightly over three miles). From sketchy reports U.S. track fans pieced together an extraordinary figure: a fireman by trade, so thin he looks like an inmate of a Jap prison camp, and yet rugged enough to run a mile in 4:04.6, two miles in 8:47.8, three miles...
Sibelius: Symphony No. I (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting; Columbia; 10 sides) and Symphony No. 7 (St. Louis Symphony, Vladimir Golschmann conducting; Victor; 6 sides). Two of the great Finn's finest. Golschmann's 7th, the only version available outside the six-volume collection of the Sibelius Society, is an ideal performance, magnificently recorded. Barbirolli's First is somewhat pedestrian, strongly rivaled by Ormandy's excellent Victor album...
...picture is, in fact, Hollywood's most strenuous effort, to date, to mix a box-office Mickey Finn out of these disparate ingredients: topical tragedy, pulmotored patriotism, slick-paper romance, and anything-for-a-laugh comedy. There are moments when Director McCarey has the sleight of hand it takes. Albert Bassermann makes a small prize package of a fierce, old Polish general. Pudgy Walter Slezak, as the dastardly baron, is as slickly untrustworthy as a bomb in aspic. But Principals Rogers and Grant exude a general impression that they know something has gone very wrong, and that nothing much...