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...performed this kickoff. Then Wettergren rippled through an aria from Thomas' Mignon, squatted rather than bowed to accept a bouquet of chrysanthemums from the Swedish Choral Society. But what brought the Chicago audience to its feet and earned Singer Wettergren five encores was a group of Swedish and Finnish songs. She sang these, according to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the business-like Journal of Commerce, "with such richness of voice, such simplicity of phrasing and such communicative charm that they enchanted an audience almost 100 per cent at sea as to their meaning...
...scribbling nights on scratch-pads for two years. Sally Salminen, 30-year-old Finnish maid (employed by a Parkavian family), completed Katrina, a Swedish novel to which Helsingfors publishers awarded a prize of $2,100. "Ever since I can remember I wanted to write," she confessed when cameramen and newshawks arrived in her kitchen. "I was always sort of a crybaby, feeling sad because I didn't have an education...
...trainer, he has successively risen as cross country coach, Freshman track coach, field events coach, until last year he was given complete charge of the whole track setup when he succeeded in keeping the record of never having been beaten in dual track meets for three years intact. His Finnish accent is positively thrilling...
...incendiary bombs, three airplanes and four machine guns for Emperor Haile Selassie's armies. The Santa Maria had got as far as Gibraltar when Haile Selassie fled his empire and the war was over. Captain P. P. Allen was told by the cargo's Finnish shippers, who had presumably already been paid for it, to land it somewhere and await further orders. He landed it at Tangier in Morocco's International Zone. Before he could get his ship away, the port authorities ordered him to reload his perilous consignment and get it out of Tangier...
Also on the program is Mendelssohn's Concerto in E minor for Violin in which Nathan Milstein, the young Russian virtuose is to be the soloist. The concert closes with Sibelius's First Symphony Like Beethoven, the great Finnish composer is orienting himself in this work and does not attain quite the characteristic breadth and scope which are so typical of his later symphonies, notably the Fifth...