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...years. Driving through the jack-pine country of northern Wisconsin on his calls, Doc MacKinnon reflected: it had seemed much shorter than that. In the long country-doctor days and broken nights of George Elliott MacKinnon, now 60, he had brought hundreds -thousands-of children into life. Many a Finnish logger had come to his office in little (pop. 452) Prentice, Wis. to be patched up after a knife fight. There had been fevers, croups, contagions, the flu epidemic of 1919, when Doc was out on the drifted roads for eight subzero days & nights, .with a steaming horse pulling...
Died. Eino Rudolf Woldemar Holsti, 63, able Finnish statesman, who as Foreign Minister reaffirmed "good neighbor" relations with Russia in 1937, as delegate to the League of Nations obtained Russia's expulsion for her attack in 1939; after an abdominal operation; in Palo Alto, Calif. Dr. Holsti saved his country from starvation after World War I by a successful appeal to Herbert Hoover for food. When Nazi domination of Finnish affairs sent him packing in 1940 he found refuge as a professor at Hoover's Stanford University. Generally credited for Finland's prompt war-debt payments...
...know G. Washington said, "It's better to be alone than in bad company"; if he had added "bailling or bewildering" company more of the boys in the management class would undoubtedly agree. "Pablo" Giamis would assent, especially after his confident sociological theories on Finnish introverts were unceremoniously cut off by a smiling "Anybody else?" which we suspect by now contains psychological implications deeper (and more important) than any of those of Arnello himself...
Finland. The Finns had their first general election since 1939, their first national vote since the Red Army defeated them and their German ally in Finland last year. The issue was equally clear to the Finns and to watchful Moscow: was Finnish friendship with the Finns' old enemy, Russia, to be sincere and permanent, or tactical and temporary...
Under the noses of a Soviet Control Commission, six political parties ran 580 candidates for 200 seats in the new Eduskunta (Parliament). U.S. correspondents in Helsinki reported that all parties and candidates had complete freedom of speech and action; Finnish voters enjoyed absolute privacy at the polls...