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Baseball's Paul Bunyan is Sergeant Charley Cronin. He keeps on mowing 'em down. Last week he had won 69 straight games in three years of Army pitching (including a recent victory over Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League). The Fort Lewis (Wash.) pitcher is a 30-year-old ex-minor leaguer, who won 24, lost 19 with Springfield of the Three-I League before retiring with a sore arm. The St. Louis Browns, the Cardinals and Detroit had liked his fast ball but labeled him too frail (150 lbs.) to stand the gaff. On Army beans...
...week's end Captain John J. Cronin, the deceptively delicate-looking commanding officer of the Bureau, was directing a meticulous search which had spread across the whole...
...Cronin's men quietly invaded International House. If the girl had met with foul play, they reasoned, she might never have left the building. They drained two 9,000-gallon water tanks on the roof, another 5,000-gallon tank in a 13th-floor engine room. They shoveled and sifted their way through 150 tons of pea coal in basement bins. They searched the building's 550 rooms, foot by foot. They found no trace of her: Where had Valsa been going, in the snow, before dawn? She had only an amateur interest in Indian political affairs...
...Keys of the Kingdom (20th Century-Fox), A. J. Cronin's best-selling novel, will use Gary-Cooperish Stage Actor Gregory Peck as the Scottish missionary to China. Father Arthur O'Hara, a genuine missionary, will furnish technical advice. For release this summer...
...Chase, erratic left-hander with a first-rate fastball, and Dick Newsome, dependable right-hander, are expected to take the mound this afternoon for Joe Cronin's nine. The rest of the lineup should be about the same as printed in Wednesday's CRIMSON, except that John Lazor, rookie outfielder, will probably be in left field in place of the venerable Al Simmons...