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...LEGEND OF MARK TWAIN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Host David Wayne continues the legend by dramatizing scenes from Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and other Twain-told tales...
Despite a slight recession and an imbalance of payments-difficulties common to many Western lands at the moment-Finland now enjoys one of the world's highest standards of living. The Finn's capitalist welfare state gives him six weeks' vacation, during which he deserts the city for his cottage on one of the country's 60,000 lakes. There he swims, sails, fishes and plays pesäpallo-an imported variation of baseball. And he reads; Finns buy more books per capita than any other nation...
Endowed with typical Lutheran Nordic conservatism, the blond, blue-eyed Finn only slowly adopts the fads of the West. Miniskirts are just now appearing on Helsinki's streets. The Finn's first love remains the sauna bath. More than half a million families have their own private steam rooms, where temperatures rise to 275°F as the bather briskly whips his body with wet birch branches before dashing out and leaping into a frigid lake or snow bank. The sauna is said to develop the quality of sisu-a combination of courage, stamina, tenacity and stubbornness. Sisu...
...Take a Card." Today an announcer, tomorrow a spokesman. Such is another peculiarity of the show-biz equation. For Carson, the rise was a little more gradual. He is not a Horatio Alger hero but an updated and inner-directed Huck Finn. He was born in October 1925 in Corning, Iowa, where his father Homer-dubbed, inevitably, Kit-worked for a utility company. When Johnny was eight, his family moved to Norfolk, Neb. (pop. 15,200), where Homer (who is now retired) was appointed to the district managership of the Nebraska Light & Power...
...more like a Mickey Finn. A few weeks later-even before shooting began-Coburn complained that he would feel uncomfortable making movie love to such a young thing, so the studio decided to drop Romina for someone a little older. Linda telephoned Evans a dozen times a day, demanding explanations and offering script revisions that would accommodate Romina's talent for projecting "pure love through poetry." Asked if her budding starlet might take some acting lessons, Mommy exclaimed: "Are you crazy? Do you want to spoil that gift...