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...since 1946 had Russian track & field stars appeared in international competition west of the Iron Curtain. After the Oslo games that year, where they won six events, the Russians withdrew from the 1948 Olympics. Last week, with an eye on the Helsinki Olympics in 1952, the Russians sent a planeload of 40 athletes to Brussels for the 23-nation European track & field championships. In action, they looked pretty good...
...this issue's cover story on Stalin, the editors relied extensively on our bureaus and correspondents in Rome, Paris, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Vienna, Helsinki and Washington. In these news centers our reporters talked to all of the experts whose business it is to know the Russians, and who have the best sources of information on Russia. With this information for guidance, the editors have tried to analyze the crisis in Asia from the Kremlin's viewpoint. This, incidentally, is the eighth time that Stalin has been on TIME'S cover...
Died. Eliel Saarinen, 76, Finnish-born architect, longtime President of the Cranbrook Academy of Art; in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. A painter in his youth, Saarinen won his first success with the elegantly simple Finnish Pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1900, later designed the Helsinki railroad station and Finland's National Museum. An old friend of Frank Lloyd Wright and functionalism, Saarinen emigrated to the U.S. in 1923, designed (with his son) the Tanglewood Mass, music center and the Des Moines Fine Arts Center, worked unceasingly on his far-seeing city planning schemes...
After returning to Helsinki in a special Russian plane, Premier Kekkonen proudly termed the $350-million treaty the biggest deal ever made by Finland. It would in all likelihood also be the costliest...
Skeptics thought that self-improvement would thaw in warmer weather. But optimists remembered the words of Finland's famed writer Aleksis Kivi: "If we once start on the job, we'll stick to it with clenched teeth." In Helsinki's Parliament Building last week, Finns jammed a meeting of the Anti-Obesity Association. President Yrjo Simila had clenched his teeth, dieted from 240 to 180 Ibs., and was feeling like...