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...Hungarians are especially interested in Esperanto because their language is so far removed from any other, except Finnish and Estonian. Only two words derived from the Hungarian -goulash and coach-are in common use in English...
...LIFE photographer. One of his early jobs was a story on New York City's Queens-Midtown tunnel, where he worked with the .sandhogs below the bed of the East River, got the bends, was revived, went back for more. He covered the Russo-Finnish war in 1940, covered the retreat of the French government from Paris to Bordeaux, then 15,000 miles and 18 months later, shot a picture series on the Philippines' preparation for war-which he sent off to LIFE one day before Pearl Harbor. He and his wife and fellow TIME correspondent, Shelley Smith...
...will of the people will be the deciding factor," President Paasikivi had promised the two million Finns who trooped quietly to the polls last week to elect a new Parliament. It was the first Finnish election since the signing of the Russo-Finnish "mutual assistance" pact (TIME, April 19). Early returns indicated that the Communist-led Democratic Union had lost at least eight of their 51 seats, dropped from first place to third. Finland's Agrarians and Social Democrats had gained enough to climb to first and second places...
They exchanged some grim statistics: the height and weight of traditionally healthy Finnish children are 10% to 15% below prewar average; the average weight of Yugoslav children is down 24%. In Italy alone, 2,000,000 children need extra rations, 220,000 have eye-destroying trachoma. Only 30% of Austria's children can be considered healthy; in Poland, 30% of the children under seven have rickets; 90% of Rumanian children have bad teeth. Tuberculosis, hunger's fellow traveler, is up everywhere: 1% of Europe's children have active tuberculosis, two-thirds of them are tuberculin positives. Among...
...excerpts from André Gide's Journals. It contains masterpieces like Ivan Bunin's Gentleman from San Francisco and unfamiliar stories like Roger Martin Du Card's smoldering Confidence Africaine. Examples of the work of writers unknown in the U.S. (e.g., Chilean Poetess Gabriela Mistral and Finnish Novelist Frans Eemil Sillanpää) are alone enough to make it a valuable book...