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...Briggs Cage was tarred over last year to serve as basketball courts for the various Navy and Army training units, Tootell had to do his practice tossing on the hard surface with a heavy, india-rubber shot. But under the daily training of Coach Mikkola, former mentor of Finnish Olympic track teams, he soon had the Boston scribes taking notice...
Highest ranking and most outspoken of German radio commentators is Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, who was retired from the Finnish front in 1941 because of illness. Last week Dittmar, finding no glimmer of cheer in the black situation, recalled the glorious career of Frederick II ("Frederick the Great") of Prussia, onetime idol and inspiration of Adolf Hitler. Frederick had fought the Seven Years' War (1756-63) against a formidable coalition-Austria, France, Russia, Sweden. Finally, with some help from England, he wore them all out. For eleven years before 1756, Frederick had built up his army, laid down immense...
...shaky Finnish Government of Premier Urko Castren, in crisis ever since the signing of the armistice with Russia last September, staggered out of office. In its place moved a new cabinet headed by Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 74. Dr. Paasikivi was persona grata in Moscow. He had helped negotiate three treaties that ended Finland's three wars with Russia-in 1920, 1940 and 1944. The national crisis was deferred, not ended...
...start of the post-armistice campaign, most Finns had too long been friends of the Germans to pursue the battle with gusto. But heavy-footed Germans did their undiplomatic best to change Finnish minds. Outmoded Stukas brutally dive-bombed two Finnish troop trains. Finnish towns were fired with senseless Teutonic fury. The Finnish soldier began to take a more personal interest...
...real coffee and cognac in sherry glasses. Sibelius asked for a large glass so his shaking hands wouldn't spill the cognac. The glass never came. He said he had one bottle of whiskey left, but was saving it. He had great difficulty lighting the stump of a Finnish Balkan tobacco cigar...