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...example: my good friend, the late Matti Helenius, who had published several books under the name Matti Helenius, was well known under that name all over Europe. He sought to avoid confusion by attaching his Finnish family name to his accepted name, Helenius, and thus became Matti Helenius-Seppala...
...Matti Helenius-Seppala, Alii Trygg-Helenius and Madame Seppala are all dead, but they have left behind them a record of social and philanthropic activities that will carry their names down through many generations of Finnish history...
Robert K. Scarbacher, of Miami, Florida in Electrical Engineering; James D. Parsons '35, of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, in Soil Mechanics; Matti H. Pakkala, of Washington, D. C., in Metallurgy; Tsung-Hwa Suh, of Shanghai, China in Neurology...
Javelin Throw. The Finns, who since 1912 used to win all the distance races at the Olympics, did poorly this year, with pale Paavo Nurmi sitting in the grandstand. Three Finns who were particularly disappointed were the Jarvinen brothers, Matti, Karlo Werner and Akilles. They had often heard stories about the 1906 Olympics from their father, Werner Jarvinen, who won the Greek style discus throw that year at Athens. Matti Jarvinen, spectacled sporting-goods clerk of Davaro, won Finland its first event last week with another implement that old Werner Jarvinen had shown him how to handle. He threw...
...metre hurdles, discus throw, pole-vault, javelin throw, 1,500-metre run) went to huge James ("Jarring Jim") Bausch, insurance salesman and onetime University of Kansas footballer, who was in sixth place before the last five events, finished with a world's record score of 8,462.23. Second was Matti Jarvinen's brother Akilles with...