Word: cronin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dream of owning his own rickshaw." It is a dream, said Clubster Lewis Gannett, filled with the "love of a steady run and a good sweat." (As "dividend,"the Club tossed in the eight-months-old novel, The Green Years, by standard best-seller A. J. Cronin...
...Managers. In the first week's scramble the managers took the worst beating. Cleveland's Lou Boudreau opened on a low note by getting picked off third base with the ancient hidden-ball trick. Joe Cronin of the Red Sox broke his ankle sliding into second. Leo Durocher of Brooklyn, who had loudly threatened to play second base for the first 15 games, gave up with sore shins after a game and a half (he was still juggling his batting order right & left-five times in five days...
...Cronin had very obviously not read "Going My Way" when he wrote "Keys of the Kingdom," but many of the Barry Fitzgerald touches are presented here by Edmund Gwynn. The novel, like all of Cronin's, has a consistent theme of human aspiration and courage with big does of excitement thrown in. It is a tear-jerker, but it is not unrelieved by lighter moments...
...Keys of the Kingdom (20th Century-Fox), a handsome and heartfelt screen version of A. J. Cronin's bestseller, lacks the parochial authenticity, the comic pathos and the sagacious acting which made Going My Way the best of all movies about priests. But it is rather more attentive to religion, and its religiousness is not only free of pomp and sanctimony but is also human, dramatic and moving...
Victory number four came in the feature of the season, as 43,000 fans watched the Crimson down an inexperienced Boston College eleven, 13 to 0. A last quarter rally by B.C. behind triple-threat Cronin failed...