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Surest sign of the healthy state of U.S. architecture is the large number of promising younger talents. And of the whole U.S. cast of modern architects, none has a better proportioned combination of imagination, versatility and good sense than Eero Saarinen, 45, son of late great Finnish-born Architect Eliel Saarinen...
Sire & Sisu. Saarinen credits his natural competitiveness partly to his Finnish sisu* and the example of his hardworking, hard-playing father. Eliel Saarinen was Finland's No. 1 architect (the Helsinki railroad station and National Museum) and town planner (Helsinki, and Canberra, Australia). He set up headquarters in a romantic, rustic, 38-room retreat which he and his partners built overlooking Hvitträsk (White Lake), 18 miles outside Helsinki. After he married a sister of one of his partners, Sculptress Loja Gesellius, they turned it into a center of crafts and architecture. Among the stream of visitors...
...Finnish-born Eero Saarinen, 45, the Grand Architectural Award, at the Boston Arts Festival, for his design of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapel (TIME, June 29, 1953, et seq.), as "the strongest statement in terms of structure and space enclosure for its purpose . . . sensitivity to the use of materials and detail follow-through...
Princely Guests. While Kelley and Costes trained near Boston, the dour Finns jogged doggedly through the hills near Plainfield, Conn., where a group of Finnish-Americans had set up training facilities for Eino Oksanen, a Helsinki detective, and Antti Viskari, Finnish army sergeant, whose trip to the U.S. for the race was financed by the U.S. Finnish-American colony...
...still running steadily. Desperately, Kelley tried to catch up, but with no success, and as they sprinted down Commonwealth Ave., Viskari pulled away, turned into Exeter St. and loped to the finish line two blocks away. Mayor John B. Hynes clapped the laurel wreath on his head and adoring Finnish-Americans enshrouded him in a blanket. Unsure of Viskari's English, an admirer shouted: "Record! Record! Understand?" Viskari grinned as well as he could. His time: 2 hr. 14 min. 14 sec., fastest marathon ever run. Kelley, 125 yards back at the finish, crossed 19 seconds later, also breaking...