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...fund-drive was too cumbersome for U. S. restlessness. Americans last week formed committees, threw binges, sponsored concerts, balls, dinners, benefits, theatricals; debutantes carried jingling boxes through night clubs, collected from workmen; bankers put coin-boxes by their wickets. For their Fatherland and for fun, old Finn Record-Miler Paavo Nurmi and young Finn Record-Two-Miler Taisto Maki finished tuning their leg-muscles to watchspring fineness, began junketing over the U. S., through subways, a strange language, strange food, one-night stands. Their goal: benefit funds for Finland. Finland was the fashion...
Staid, stolid Herbert Hoover, national chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc., posed in Manhattan, gun in hand, with noted Finnish Runners Paavo Nurmi and Taisto Maid, to symbolize the start of a new drive (see cut}. The former President welcomed the athletes as "ambassadors of the greatest sporting nation in the world," alluded rhapsodically but tactlessly to Thermopylae (where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans put up a stout fight against the Persian hordes, were massacred to a man). "Flying Finn" Nurmi, once world's champion distance runner, and his protege Maki, breaker of track records, including Nurmi...
...Bespectacled, 24-year-old Charles Fenske: the Wanamaker Mile; in 4 min., 7.4 sec., second fastest indoor mile on record; outrunning Old Iron Legs Glenn Cunningham by three yards; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Among the 16,000 onlookers was famed Finn Paavo Nurmi (see p. 38), whose 4:12 mile on the same Garden boards set a world's record in 1925. Present world's record: Cunningham...
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...