Word: paavo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finnish Composer Jean Julius Christian Sibelius refused offers of haven all over Europe, said he would sit tight at his Ainola estate near Helsinki. Finnish Runner Paavo Nurmi taped the windows of his Helsinki sporting goods shop, went ofi to enlist as a chauffeur. Finnish Author Frans Eemil Sillanpda, his seven offspring at his heels, left for Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize for literature. Unable to stand drinks en route, Author Sillanpaa excused himself: "It's a little awkward at the moment but I'll soon have some money...
Though the U. S. won more firsts, Finland had the outstanding performer: 29-year-old Taisto Maki, who broke two world's records- two miles (8:53.2), 5,000 meters (29:52.3)-once held by famed Paavo Nurmi...
...related that the great Paavo Nurmi, winner of six individual and three team gold medals in the Olympics, used to work out by running along next to freight trains passing near his home; with this pacing he evolved his famous loping style...
...Finnish Paavo Nurmi was the world's greatest distance runner, Yankee Babe Ruth cracked out his 416th home run, Bobby Jones won his third national amateur championship and Jack Dempsey was training for a return match with Champion Gene Tunney. That year a brown-eyed little Norwegian girl named Sonja Henie, having won her first world's championship, was about to win her first Olympic crown. For the comparatively few who took an interest in skating, she was the most famous woman skater in the world...
Last week Gene Tunney was in the whiskey business, Restaurateur Jack Dempsey was recuperating from an appendectomy, Babe Ruth was looking for a manager's job in the major leagues, Bobby Jones was an aging, paunchy Atlanta lawyer, Paavo Nurmi was managing a tidy fortune invested in Finnish real estate. Having accepted a back seat or had it thrust upon them, none of these once-great sporting figures was much more than a brave memory...