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Then, at week's end, came the report that the Finnish coup was all but accomplished...
Inside the house, after the gifts were given to the coach, Mrs. Mikkola reciprocated by plying the track members with hot cocoa and coffee, and home-made Finnish cookies and pastries. The party broke up early, with the guests hurrying back into Cambridge to get at the books...
...scholarship at Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse. Broadway Producer Guthrie McClintic saw him and signed him for a last-act bit in the road tour of Katharine Cornell's The Doctor's Dilemma. On that tour, Peck met and later married Greta Konen, a tiny, bright-blonde Finnish girl who was Cornell's hairdresser...
When World War II broke out, he was worth an estimated $50 to $100 million, and he had great & good friends on both sides. For Old Friend Hermann Göring, he acted as a go-between in the Russo-Finnish war and helped work out a truce. For Old Friend Edward, Duke of Windsor, he provided his 320-ft. yacht Southern Cross (once owned by Howard Hughes) to take the Duchess from Nassau to Florida to have an infected tooth removed...
...Finnish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee wanted to join the "Marshall approach" discussions in Paris, but President Paasikivi knew the Kremlin would not stand for it, and the Finnish delegation stayed home. Despite this, U.S.-Finnish trade has continued to thrive. The Finns hoped that Russia was not preparing to demand heavy imports on top of reparations-a move which would surely diminish (or even abolish) their trade with...