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Summerville is a winter resort in South Carolina. At its paint-thirsty town hall last week, under a blazing sun that sent the temperature to 110°, two of its residents - a Finnish-born, 40-year-old doctor named Arne Suominen and an eleven-year-old race horse named Duke-began a 40-mile race.* The course: to Charleston (27 miles), then 13 miles around The Citadel's foot-racing track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horse v. Doctor | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...forgotten by early summer, Russo-Finnish War ended with Russia getting all but one of the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Died. Henry W. Antheil Jr., 27, attaché of the U. S. Legation at Helsinki, younger brother of noted Composer George Antheil; when the Finnish airliner in which he was flying from Tallinn, Estonia to Helsinki mysteriously exploded in mid-air and plunged into the Gulf of Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...Until February 1 the fighting in the Russo-Finnish War was notable for the surprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...Finnish successes in isolating and annihilating entire Russian divisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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