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...Jean v. Paavo. Politically and by temperament Sibelius is a nationalist. A large number of his early works (Kullervo, the Karelia Suite, Finlandia, et al.) were written as patriotic tributes. Though no one has succeeded in identifying any of his melodies as folk themes, considerable controversy still goes on as to whether he has been influenced by national Finnish idioms. His ancestry contains both Finnish and Swedish strains. Clergymen, doctors, merchants and small landowners, including a few intelligent musical amateurs, were his progenitors. He springs from the great ranks of the bourgeois...
...Donald Ray Lash, Indiana University runner: the fastest two-mile race in history: in 8 min. 58 sec., shading Paavo Nurmi's indoor record (8:58.2) and his own outdoor world record (8:58.3); in Boston's Garden...
Hero Owens. In 1924 Finn Paavo Nurmi won three Olympic races. Last week at Berlin, Cleveland's coffee-colored Jesse Owens bettered this achievement. On the first day of competition he broke the world's record for 100 metres in a trial heat (10.2 sec.). On the second day, he won the final in world-record time (10.3). On the third, he won the broad jump with a new Olympic record (26 ft., 5 21/64 in.). On the fourth, he won the 200-metre dash with a new world's record (20.7 sec.) for a track with...
...famed Paavo Nurmi ran two miles in 8:59.6. That, except for Nurmi's indoor record of 8:58.2, made on a board track at Madison Square Garden in 1925, is the fastest time ever recorded for a human runner over the distance. Track coaches have generally considered it, of all existing marks, the least susceptible to improvement...
...Frenchman was accused of biting an Englishman. In 1928, in Amsterdam, the French refused to march in the opening parade, England withdrew its football team, and referees' decisions aroused even more dissension than usual. The 1932 games in Los Angeles were relatively amiable. Finland threatened to withdraw when Paavo Nurmi was declared a professional. Italy and Japan are currently bickering about whether the 1940 Olympics should be held in Rome or Tokyo...