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Died. Henrik Ramsay, 65, onetime Finnish Foreign Minister, who was sentenced to 2½ years in prison for having been a member of Finland's government during the wars with the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1944; of a heart attack; on the island of Gottland, Sweden...
...aside $1,000,000 of the fortune her father, Ebenezer Buckingham, had made in banking and grain elevators. Before her death in 1937, Kate commissioned a heroic statue of Hamilton from Sculptor John Angel, and was considering as its setting a monumental eye catcher, designed by Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen, with four 80-ft. fluted granite pillars topped by huge bronze discs...
...world fencing championships in Stockholm last week, Mogens Luchow, Denmark's world épée champion, met a tough Finnish army captain named Ilmari Vartia. Luchow parried Vartia's attack, thrust sharply and powerfully in riposte. The stiff, three-cornered blade plunged into the Finn's chest. "There is no danger," insisted Vartia as the blade was eased out of the wound, its protective tip still in place. A moment later, with blood staining his white fencer's jacket, Captain Vartia slipped lifeless to the floor...
...this, the tourists seemed to think, was fully worth the price of three guineas. "Delicious boys," said an English matron. "Enchanting," said an American grandmother. Added a cautious Finnish gentleman: "It was verry different...
Niilo Kalervo Kallio started playing with puukoilla (Finnish for knives) while he was still in short pants. "What old men can whittle I could whittle before I was ten," he says. "I loved my puukko so much that when I went to bed I'd put it under my pillow and pray I would some day have the sharpest knife in the world...