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...most fascinating novels of the year was Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev, a chilling account of inhuman Soviet bureaucracy by a man who knew it well. U.S. readers left it virtually unnoticed in their rush to make a bestseller of a fat Finnish historical pudding, The Adventurer, by Mika Waltari, author of last year's bestselling The Egyptian...
...Helsinki's Malmi Airport, Mrs. Pontecorvo looked haggard and distraught. Her husband seemed quite normal. But his passport was not in order; he had no Finnish visa, so the authorities politely told him he must surrender it for correction. He could pick it up in three days at the Ministry of Interior's Bureau for Foreigners...
...this delayed the airline bus into the Finnish capital. Finally the five Pontecorvos piled in, along with half a dozen large suitcases. As the bus entered the city, the Pontecorvo boy asked again, "Are we now in Russia?" Just outside the Finnish Airways office in the Esplanade, the bus stopped. The Pontecorvos picked up a taxicab and sped off. After that, no trace...
...Polytechnic Chorus of the Finnish institute of the University of Helsinki and the Harvard Glee Club serenaded each other yesterday t 3 p.m. in the Phillips Brooks House living room. The visitors sang two numbers in their native tongues...
...Stockholm Massacre of 1520 and the sack of Rome by the troops of Emperor Charles V. He talks with Luther and Erasmus, studies with Paracelsus. In this way, the reader gets alternate doses of high and low life that may be intended, like the hot & cold treatments of a Finnish steam bath, to make him tingle all over. In Waltari overdoses, the treatment brings on numbness...