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...formal, old-style fund-drive was too cumbersome for U. S. restlessness. Americans last week formed committees, threw binges, sponsored concerts, balls, dinners, benefits, theatricals; debutantes carried jingling boxes through night clubs, collected from workmen; bankers put coin-boxes by their wickets. For their Fatherland and for fun, old Finn Record-Miler Paavo Nurmi and young Finn Record-Two-Miler Taisto Maki finished tuning their leg-muscles to watchspring fineness, began junketing over the U. S., through subways, a strange language, strange food, one-night stands. Their goal: benefit funds for Finland. Finland was the fashion...
Around three sides of Karelia's crumbling capital Russian field artillery stood hub to hub, and under the torrent of shells they threw, the Red Army last week battered its way into Viipuri. Craftily the Finns fought their retreating battle, leaving small rear-guard detachments to hold up the advance while their main force fell back in good order. A ruined town makes the best of all fortifications, and as the Russians entered the outskirts of Viipuri, Finnish machine guns spat tellingly from the gaping windows of the all-but-demolished houses. The invaders had to occupy Viipuri block...
...almost the same plane, he has wondered how it all started. Pierre Laplace, French mathematician (1749-1827), devised the celebrated "nebular hypothesis": that the solar system was originally a diffuse, whirling, gaseous mass. As this nebular mass became smaller and denser, it whirled faster, until centrifugal force threw off a ring of gas. The process was repeated, each gas ring coalescing into a planet and the sun finally settling down to its present calm estate...
...Stoddard's conclusions threw other psychologists into a dither. Humphed one: "If what you say is true, an intelligent man and wife should adopt children instead of having their own." Retorted Dr. Stoddard: "Their chances of getting bright kids would be just about as good...
Like his good friend Painter Pablo Picasso (who invented and then threw over cubism), Igor Stravinsky soon abandoned his followers. He took to ransacking 18th-Century fugues and roundelays, writing distorted imitations of Bach and Handel. None of his later compositions created anywhere near the fuss & feathers that the Sacre did, but Stravinsky remained the greatest ballet composer of modern times, and one of the half-dozen most important symphonic composers of the 20th Century. With audiences nowadays he is popular chiefly for two early ballet scores: Petrouchka (1911) and the orchestral suite from his fairy-tale ballet The Firebird...