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...school. To make ends meet, he took a summer job as an announcer, producer and scriptwriter for Hartford's radio station WTHT, then organized a radio-appreciation course for his students. In 1934, while on a year's leave studying English at Cambridge, he met a young Finnish woman, Laura Ohman; they corresponded, were married two years later. (They have one son, Richard, who studied at Harvard and Berkeley, is now assistant curator at New York City's American Museum of Natural History.) Gould completed his credits for an M.A. at N.Y.U., started Ph.D. studies at Harvard...
...Though Finnish Architect Viljo Revell had won Toronto's city-hall competition four years earlier, the last contest for a municipal building in the U.S. was for San Francisco's city hall...
...Vassar, whose girlhood goal was to be "intelluptuous," she got a job on Art News "because I could spell Pollaiuolo,"* rose to managing editor in 1944, a year later joined the New York Times as an art critic. While on an assignment in 1952, she interviewed and later married Finnish-born Architect Eero Saarinen (it was her second marriage). After his death eight years later, she appeared on a 1962 CBS special on Lincoln Center. An NBC producer, impressed with her knack for explaining the abstracts of architecture in understandable terms, stole her away for the Today program...
...running at $220 million for the second consecutive year. Unemployment has gone up (2.5% of the work force), production has fallen, and investment is at a virtual standstill. Forest products-including paper and pulp-which employ over 20% of the work force and account for two-thirds of Finnish exports, are badly squeezed. Timber owners, mostly small farmers, are holding out for higher prices. Some mills closed down this year, others are working at insignificant margins or at a loss. "Against this background it would have been difficult if not downright impossible to tighten credit policy further," said Bank...
...Egypt and Israel to station truce observers along the canal, hopes that the situation will cool off at Suez when the observers take up their posts this week, though the Israelis believe that the observers are likely to be ineffectual. The truce teams, which will be composed mainly of Finnish and Swedish officers, will eventually number about 30 men to cover the 107-mile front at Suez. U.N. truce observers have been patrolling the cease-fire line in the Golan Heights 40 miles south of Damascus for the past six weeks...