"King of the Hoboes" Jeff Davis proposed that U. S. railroads put benches in box cars, charge a cent a mile to unemployed rovers.
Although bomb detonations have shattered some windows in his villa, 20 miles from Helsinki, bald, hulking, 74-year-old Composer Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, the Finns' "national treasure," stubbornly refused to leave. Two weeks after the Russo-Finnish war began he left his Helsinki flat for the country. Said friends: "It was the noise [of daily bombings] that drove him out. He has little fear, but the noise was just too unmusical."
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