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Niilo Kalervo Kallio started playing with puukoilla (Finnish for knives) while he was still in short pants. "What old men can whittle I could whittle before I was ten," he says. "I loved my puukko so much that when I went to bed I'd put it under my pillow and pray I would some day have the sharpest knife in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Knife, Bayonet, Chisel | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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