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Phlox & Talks. The Russians, in no mood to niggle when they had such a good thing, welcomed the travelers like long-lost brothers. They sent a special VIP plane to Helsinki to pick them up, put them up lavishly in the Sovietskaya Hotel in suites complete with pianos and radios. "Truly a place for important people," glowed Unionist Harry Franklin. Georgy Malenkov himself invited them out to a handsome country dacha, and after picking a bunch of phlox and gladioli for Dr. Summerskill, told her gallantly: "What has been wrong too often in the world of education is that...
Twelve pounds lighter than he was last March, Evangelist Graham is off next month on a fortnight's tour of other European countries, with meetings (through interpreters) scheduled in Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Diissel-dorf, Berlin and Paris. Churches in Glasgow, Birmingham and London have invited him to come back to Britain next year for another campaign, and he probably will...
...Philadelphia, Navy's Olympic Champion crew, still almost intact from its 1952 triumph at Helsinki, showed its wake to two of the East's undefeated eights, beating Pennsylvania by a length, Harvard by two, for their 24th straight victory...
British businessmen have nibbled so eagerly at recent Soviet offers to trade with the West (TIME, Feb. 15) that the Soviet state airline last week began making daily flights from Helsinki to carry order-seeking Britons to Moscow. But the president of the Federation of British Industries (Britain's equivalent of the N.A.M.) warned the nibblers last week that Russia's economic bait has political strings attached...
Sammy Lee is a confident, stubby (5 ft. 1¼ in., 132 Ibs.) man who felt so sure that he would qualify for the 1952 Olympics that he sent his wife to Helsinki ahead of time. Sammy not only made the team but he repeated his 1948 gold-medal triumph in the high-diving event...