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...Women Fight. It was also ladies' day in the 15-kilometer relay race, and produced something close to a diplomatic incident. On the first lap when Finland's Sirkka Polkunen tried to pass Russia's Lubov Kosyreva, the Russian girl stuck out her ski pole to keep the Finn from passing, and the girls scuffled for a moment...
...rest of Europe buzzed with rumors of war, Finland last week was concerned with beauty. Issue: a woman's right to compete in a beauty contest. Believing she had set a bad example, the Government-operated Teachers Training College at Heinola expelled curly, blonde, blue-eyed Student Sirkka Salonen, who was preparing to be a teacher of elementary school children and recently was chosen Miss Europe of 1938 by a jury in Copenhagen. Indignantly appealing to the Minister of Education to rebuke the college for its puritanism by reinstating Miss Salonen, Finland's press pointed...
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