Music: Remit to Finland

There is a little extra cigar money waiting in the U.S. for 85-year-old Composer Jean Sibelius. By special proclamation last week, Harry Truman declared that Finnish citizens, e.g., Jean Sibelius, who had been unable to renew their U.S. copyrights during the war (Sibelius' publishers were German), might now do so. As soon as he files the necessary papers, Composer Sibelius stands to collect the back-performance royalties which the Office of Alien Property has been holding.

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