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Died. Paavo Nurmi, 76, Finland's legendary long-distance runner who won seven individual gold medals in three Olympiads (during the 1920s), of heart disease; in Helsinki. As a poor youngster, Nurmi worked in a foundry and ran 50 miles a week to develop his stamina. With long, flowing strides, "the Flying Finn" streaked through his decade, setting 28 world marks and dominating every distance race from 1,500 meters to the 26-mile marathon. Disqualified from the 1932 Olympics for "professionalism," he returned bitterly to Finland and made a fortune in the construction business...
...sooner or later. Investors are already getting a lesson that land prices can go down as well as up. High construction costs and urban blight have undercut property values in some city areas. The land under the Boston Edison Building was worth about $200 per square foot in the 1920s; today it is less than half that, though property values in other parts of town have risen. A speculative orgy of overbuilding in New York City has driven office rents in the Wall Street area down from about $10 per square foot three years...
THIS DEBATE has enlarged in importance as the twentieth-century limped along. Originally, Activist socialists thought revolutionary violence would have to be directed only against the old ruling classes, but the horrible birth of fascism in the 1920s and 30s dramatically enlarged the scope of the potential repression. First in Italy, then in Germany, revolutionary upsurges from the Left led to polarization and a counter-revolutionary mass movement from the Right--a lower middle-class army of storm troopers spouting nationalism, order, and the need to repress the nascent lower orders...
Cairnie came to the School of Landscape Design at Harvard from Caticook, Quebec, in the 1920s. He soon abandoned his studies and devoted all his energies to his books. He was an honorary member of the Signet Society. The Advocate along with several other national literary reviews dedicated issues...
...Crimson of the 1920s was like The Crimson of today. The addition of the Photo Board increased the number of departments to four-editorial, news, and business are the others. If any of you want to join the ranks of Crimson editors this fall, you will try out for one of these four departments...