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...name of Abner Doubleday is Finn MacCool? Perhaps a first baseman Branch Rickey spotted in. Nellies Apron, Ark.? What's his batting average...
When lean, soft-spoken Arthur Daley made an offhand reference to MacCool in his New York Times sports column, readers scurried to the record books. They found Finn's name nowhere, and wrote indignantly to Daley, to say so. Last week, Daley wrote a column about the greatest fielder and base runner of his time...
...Finn who has known all along that Finland would have to meet Russia's terms, not set her own, is 73-year-old ex-Foreign Minister Kuho Justi Paasikivi ,(TIME, Aug. 30). Last week he still sat at home, waiting a call to visit Stalin and get down to business...
...Russians the terms are clear: resumption of the frontier established in 1940 after the first Russo-Finnish War. If the Finns could have Viipuri back and the Saimaa Canal which floats lumber to the Gulf of Finland, many believed they would accept these terms. Paasikivi was the only Finn with a chance of talking Stalin out of Viipuri...
...further Christine's career he steals the master key of the opera house, puts a Mickey Finn into Christine's rival's drink, sends poison-pen letters, strangles a soprano and her maid, saws a huge chandelier from its chain during the performance of an opera in which Christine's rival is singing. The hard-pressed Surete (French FBI) ultimately has to call on Composer Franz Liszt (German Shakespearian Actor Fritz Leiber) to aid them in bagging the cagey Phantom...