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...hope in Boston. Not for eleven years had an American won the annual Patriots' Day Marathon, a grind of 26 miles and 385 yards winding from suburban Hopkinton to the finish line at Exeter Street in downtown Boston. This year, after a decade of watching Japanese, Koreans and Finnish runners wallop America's best, loyal Bostonians saw a chance for victory. There were no entrants from Japan or Korea, and the Finns were represented by a pair of solemn runners who ranked no better than fifth and sixth in their own marathon-happy country...
Moreover, Diplomat Ward was guilty of constant breaches of the rigidly conventional behavior that Foreign Service officers demand of one another. Whenever he and his Finnish wife moved from post to post, a small menagerie went with them. In 1934, when Moscow's Savoy Hotel refused to admit a bearded Korean hen named Skippy, which the Wards had brought with them from China, Angus promptly rented for Skippy a country house complete with personal maid. In off-duty hours Ward affected loud plaid jackets, burgundy shirts, and tartan tam-o'-shanters or astrakhan fur caps. This sort...
...never got around to building its own embassy. Last week London buzzed with the news that in Grosvenor Square the U.S. will 1) build a new $3,000,000, five-story embassy, probably by 1958, and 2) entrust the design to one of the boldest U.S. modern architects, Finnish-born Eero Saarinen...
...women's giant slalom, the crisp and speedy skill that won at Oslo for U.S. Housewife Andrea Mead Lawrence was scarcely in evidence. Andy Lawrence wound up in a tie for fourth. Gold medal winner: Germany's chubby Ossi Reichert. CJ Finnish Forest Ranger Veikko Haku-linen won the 3O-kilometer (18 miles, 1,125 yards) cross-country skiing championship, finished in front of Sweden's Six-ten Jernberg and a strong Russian squad that took every place from third to sixth. By week's end unofficial team scores put Russia's first Winter Olympics...
Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Camilla Wicks; Radio-Stockholm Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sixten Ehrling; Capitol). A knowing performance of this old Finnish chestnut by a young American peach. California-born Violinist Wicks, 27, made her first successes touring in Europe, is gradually building an American following. Under her talented fingers, the piece sounds luminous and true, its expression warm but not overheated...