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Arrived at one of the three points of entry (Leningrad, Odessa, Soviet-Finnish frontier at Beloostrov), each of the 700 must open suitcases and trunks, satisfy customs inspectors they contain not more than...
Meanwhile, off Sandhamn, Sweden, Sherman Hoyt of Manhattan sailed H. B. Plant's Saleema to win the first of a series of international six-metre yacht races for the Scandinavian Gold Cup. Close was the finish, with a Dutch boat second, a Finnish third, a Swedish fourth...
Select competing couples with an eye to racial distinctions; a dance marathon which included an Irish team, a Polish team, a Chinese team, a Jewish team, a Lithuanian team, a Finnish team, a bearded Russian team, a Negro team, etc., etc. Grandstand sections could be roped off for the supporters of each; in each grandstand section the management would hire a band to play the national songs of its occupants, thus making the scene more noisy and pleasant. A flexible system of points for good dancing and demerits for loafing should be instituted; the team which was leading the marathon...
...Lake Superior. There, in the high school, will be President Coolidge's office. Governor Fred Zimmerman of Wisconsin swiftly promised to mend the red clay roads in the northwestern corner of his State. Six miles from the Lodge is Brule, a five-street village (unpaved) inhabited by 200 Finnish fishermen. Four miles beyond Brule is Lake Nebagamon and the Congregational Church and Rev. John Taylor. Mr. Taylor is blind, uses a Bible printed in Braille. Perhaps Mr. Taylor will be taken for a cruise on the Navy cutter that will attend the President's pleasure in Superior harbor...
...National Band Concert, sponsored by the bureau at Joliet, had to listen last week while 27 bands comprising 2,000 high schoolers successively blared Finlandia, a stirring tone-poem of famed Finn Jean Sibelius. Although the genius of Sibelius has brought him a permanent subsidy from the Finnish government, he did not compose the national anthem: Maame Laulu ("The Song of our Country"), opus of Funns Bacius (composer) and Runeberg (poet...