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There is a little extra cigar money waiting in the U.S. for 85-year-old Composer Jean Sibelius. By special proclamation last week, Harry Truman declared that Finnish citizens, e.g., Jean Sibelius, who had been unable to renew their U.S. copyrights during the war (Sibelius' publishers were German), might now do so. As soon as he files the necessary papers, Composer Sibelius stands to collect the back-performance royalties which the Office of Alien Property has been holding...
...disappointment to the author's fans. Its story moves intelligibly from episode to episode, and its characters are sufficiently self-consistent so that it is possible to tell them apart. But the old Waltari charm is not there. The hero is a Finnish boy named Michael who sails aboard a pilgrim ship for Palestine, only to be lugged off to the African slave markets by Moslem pirates. Thenceforward, he ricochets about the Ottoman Empire-from the fall of Algiers to the siege of Vienna to the campaigns in Persia-like some 16th Century Lanny Budd with a bath towel...
...looked rather like a masculine version of Fleur Cowles's late, ill-starred Flair. It looked even more like the fancy and expensive ($3 a copy) trade quarterly, American Fabrics, also published by Reporter Publications. Gentry abounded in detachable inserts (an architect's plans for a Finnish steam bath, a 16-page portfolio of engravings of ducks) and three-color textile ads illustrated by swatches of materials (Shetland woolens, fine corduroys, cotton shirtings, etc.). Gentry extended the sample theme to its articles, in one of which a bag of marjoram was glued to a piece about the herb...
...charter subscriptions. Flair may well have failed because it aimed at no particular reader. Singer thinks he has drawn a bead on Gentry's: a sort of soth Century Renaissance man-well-educated, well-heeled, with leisure to dabble in the arts, science, sports, philosophy or his own Finnish bath...
...Jaakko Mikkola and sisu is Finnish for "guts." Mikkola's excitement came from the results of yesterday's all-University cross country meet...