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Died. Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, 87, "the George Washington of Finland," who fought for independence from Russia, became its first President (1919-25); in Helsinki...
Another Young Communist publication, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, belabored the Soviet Olympic squad for its performance at Helsinki though it racked up an unofficial point score second only to the U.S. score. But that was not good enough, said Komsomolskaya Pravda. As a matter of fact, both trainers and athletes fell down on the job. Because of their trainer's incompetence, the sprinters were sadly out of condition. The tactical preparation of the distance runners was "primitive." Item: two marathoners "overestimated their strength and did not show the necessary will to victory...
...world's best springboard diver is a carrot-topped, 21-year-old University of Texas senior named David ("Skippy") Browning. Skippy has won four Amateur Athletic Union National Indoor diving titles and four National Collegiate Indoor titles, and in Helsinki this summer he led the U.S. to a 1-2-3 sweep of Olympic springboard diving (TIME...
Edouard Fankhauser, president of the Swiss Nudist Club, regards the Helsinki Olympics as a "travesty." Said he last week: "The ancient athletes performed in the nude . . . It would be so much better if the youth of the world . . . remained faithful to the old ideals." So saying, Nudist Fankhauser stepped back inside the barb-wired camp on the shore of Switzerland's Lake of Neuchatel, where some 50 naked men & women from six European countries were competing in "the real Olympiad." U.S. nudists (TIME, Aug. 25) were invited, but decided not to take off for Europe...
Paris' Communist L'Humanité, chagrined over France's bad showing (eighth place) in the Olympics, found an alibi. After scanning the French team roster, it discovered that capitalist weaklings had gummed the works in Helsinki. L'Human-ité's excuse for France's flop: ''Of 275 team members . . . there were only 28 workers and four peasants." Undoubtedly the correct Commie line...