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...Australia's Ron Clarke, 28: the 10,000-meter run in 28 min. 14 sec., snipping 1.6 sec. off his own world record; on the famed track at Turku, Finland. Outdistancing a pack of Finnish runners, Clarke finished without his usual sprint, leading observers to believe that the intense Aussie can run still faster...
Loaded with evidence and about to spring their story, the reporters were worried that the would-be Führer Björn Lundahl, 30, might be wise to them. They sent him a phony message, urging him to travel to a town near the Finnish border where he would meet agents who would take him to Cairo. The Führer complied. While he was gone, the reporters handed in their stories; the paper notified the police. "They couldn't believe their ears," said Expressen Editor Per Wrigstad...
...four orchestral holiday pieces (1904-1913) are now assembled permanently for the first time in a quasi symphony; though-musical economics being what they are-all were recorded by foreign orchestras. Thus the Imperial Philharmonic Orchestra of Tokyo plays for the barn dance in Washington's Birthday, the Finnish Radio Symphony celebrates Decoration Day, Sweden's Goteborg Symphony the Fourth of July, the Iceland Symphony Thanksgiving. They manage fairly well, guided in each case by Ives's roving ambassador, Conductor William Strickland...
...inexperienced guard turned his back, and in a trice the 6-ft. Finnish prisoner was gone, lost in the foliage of London's Regent's Park. Though an official spokesman insisted "he's not dangerous," all London was alarmed, and telephone switchboards were soon jammed by the tipsters and the fearful. Gawkers flocked to the park by the thousands as the dragnet began to tighten. Radio trucks and prowl cars moved in, and giant searchlights were brought up to illuminate the park at night...
Less direct is the etymology of letkiss, a word that will some day surely give fits to footnoters for the Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles. The rhythms of letkiss are adapted from an old Finnish round dance called letkajenka, first popularized in Paris last December through a recording by Finnish Bandleader Anton Letkiss. Somewhere between the predawn unpronounceableness of letkajenka and the similarity of Anton's surname, letkiss emerged. To a lipstick-smeared man, Münchners are convinced that because of its nearly English name, letkiss is yet another happy American import...