HELSINGFORS, Finland, Oct. 12 --There was great hope in Finland tonight that the visit of the Finnish and Swedish Ministers to the United States State Department and the White House might cause Joseph Stalin to stay his hand.

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ENVOY ASKS AMITY; Steinhardt on Roosevelt Order Sees Molotoff About Finland SCANDINAVIANS JOIN Sweden, Denmark and Norway Also Enter Pleas in Moscow

By G.e.r. Gedye Wireless To the New York Times

USSR loads detained cargo in Netherlands and Norwegian vessels

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1939Larry Bowie, American football player (died 2012)^[†]

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Melinda Ruth Dillon was an American actress. She received a 1963 Tony Award nomination for her Broadway debut in the original production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Absence of Malice (1981). She is well-known for her role as Mrs. Parker in the holiday classic A Christmas Story (1983). Her other film roles include Bound for Glory (1976), Slap Shot (1977), F.I.S.T. (1978), The Muppet Movie (1979), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Captain America (1990), The Prince of Tides (1991), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), Magnolia (1999), for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, and Reign Over Me (2007).