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Repertory Boston, so recently given up for dead, is demonstrating not only life but considerable liveliness in presenting the English-language premiere of Bert Brecht's "episodes from the history of the landowner, Puntila, and his hired man, Matti." Its official opening, scheduled for Tuesday, was postponed until tonight because of an injury to a cast member; at Tuesday night's preview Puntila appeared as an odd, erratic, interesting, annoying, basically refractory and intractable script, worth, in its Wilbur incarnation, more than many considerably smoother enterprises...
...reporter was right on top of the news. Just a long swipe away was the four-year-old female bear he planned to wrestle for his story. Holding the bear's halter, 29-year-old Matti Jämsä last week got his news source to nibble some sugar from his palm. But when Jämsä lunged forward to wrestle, the startled bear fouled him by clawing two gashes from the corner of his right eye down his cheek. Blinded by blood, Jämsä was led from the ring a beaten man. Said...
...Paterson, N.J., Matti Raivio was found guilty of stealing $193 from a liquor store despite his explanation to the court: "As a man trained as a saboteur and a spy, I would not commit such a childish type of crime...
...with some 50,000 ski-mad visitors. In the special jumping event, normally a Norwegian monopoly, the Finns, unveiling a modified "aerodynamic" technique, got their first triumph. Leaning out over his skis in an exaggerated bend that added his whole upper body to his soaring surface, Finland's Matti Pietikainen made jumps of 251 and 256 feet for an easy first place. Russia scored when bantam-size (5 ft. 3 in. 120 Ibs.) Vladimir Kusin, a Leningrad student, beat Finland's Veikko Hakulinen by 26 seconds in the 30-kilometer (about 18.6 miles) cross-country race. Asked which...
Died. Akilles Jarvinen, Olympics decathlon record-breaker in 1932, member of Finland's No. 1 family of athletes; of accident injuries; in Helsinki. Father Werner was Finland's first Olympics champion, won the Greek style discus throw in 1906; Brother Matti threw the javelin for an Olympics record in 1932; Brother Kaarlo is a famed shotputter...