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...world fencing championships in Stockholm last week, Mogens Luchow, Denmark's world épée champion, met a tough Finnish army captain named Ilmari Vartia. Luchow parried Vartia's attack, thrust sharply and powerfully in riposte. The stiff, three-cornered blade plunged into the Finn's chest. "There is no danger," insisted Vartia as the blade was eased out of the wound, its protective tip still in place. A moment later, with blood staining his white fencer's jacket, Captain Vartia slipped lifeless to the floor...
...Chemistry prize for 1945 went to Professor Ilmari Artturi Virtanen, 50, of Finland, who is almost unknown outside Scandinavia. His specialty: agricultural biochemistry. Scandinavian dairymen are grateful to him for a method of preserving green cattle fodder with minimum loss of food value...
Games. Wildly excited crowds watched four track & field events run off the first two days. Winners: U. S. Negro Jesse Owens (100-metre dash); U. S. Negro Cornelius Johnson (high jump); Germany's Hans Woellke (shot put); Finland's Ilmari Salminen (10,000-metre...
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