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Chief of this laboratory is a quiet little apple-cheeked Finn named Eliel Saarinen, who in the past 40 years has also redesigned European towns from Budapest to Tallinn, Estonia, and who is widely regarded as the greatest living authority on city planning...
...DeVoto's first report on his findings. Mark Twain at Work, the second, is less a book than a preface. It is only 140 pages long, and is intended primarily for literary specialists. But it is of interest to anybody who has ever enjoyed Huckleberry Finn. For these three essays are a continuation of Bernard DeVoto's self-imposed literary ordeal-the critical reconstruction of Mark Twain. The first is about Tom Sawyer, and includes the shaky sketch-Mark Twain's first try at fiction -from which it grew. The second is about Huckleberry Finn, and DeVoto...
...Goteborg track meet, Haegg ran a mile in 4:06.2, two-tenths of a second under the record set by Britain's Sydney Wooderson in 1937.* Two days later, at Stockholm, he ran two miles in 8:47.8 -to shatter Finn Taisto Maki's pending out door mark by five seconds and Montanan Gregory Rice's indoor mark by three...
Harvard's track coach, the gonial Finn Jaakko Mikkola, will have to rebuild both his cross-country and his track teams, relying heavily on the incoming Freshmen, though he still has a nucleus of the squad out of which he manufactured a winning combination last season...
...Yale-Penn monopoly, which was supposed to be the main feature of the Ivy League get-together, failed to materialize, and Jaakko Mikkola's men filled in the gap, running pretty close to the program lined up for them by the genial Finn...