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Soon after landing at Oslo, Sport Researcher Anne Denny took time out to do the story of Holmen-kollen ski jump (TIME, March 12), then went to Stockholm to board a boat that broke through Baltic Sea ice into Turku, Finland. In Helsinki she talked with officials of the 1952 Olympics, took a trip up into Lapland. There among the hospitable Finns she had a wild ride in a reindeer sleigh, skied, watched trotting races on the frozen Kemi River. Though she later divided three weeks between Paris and Brussels, her next long stop was again ski country, this time...
...century's authentic literary giants, often uses his famous name for causes that have nothing to do with literature. Two years ago Mann hailed the Reds' big "Peace Congress" in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria as a "ray of hope." He denied signing the Stockholm Peace Appeal, though the New York Daily Worker had carried a photostat of what seemed to be his signature on the petition; Mann claimed the signature was forged...
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...world fencing championships in Stockholm last week, Mogens Luchow, Denmark's world épée champion, met a tough Finnish army captain named Ilmari Vartia. Luchow parried Vartia's attack, thrust sharply and powerfully in riposte. The stiff, three-cornered blade plunged into the Finn's chest. "There is no danger," insisted Vartia as the blade was eased out of the wound, its protective tip still in place. A moment later, with blood staining his white fencer's jacket, Captain Vartia slipped lifeless to the floor...
Feeling that his entry would be against the best interests of the country, the State Department announced that it had refused a U.S. visa to France's jaunty Maurice Chevalier, a signer of the Communist-inspired Stockholm "peace" petition, a member of some Communist-front groups. Chevalier, now headed for Canada, has appealed the decision to the U.S. Attorney General...