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...meet the emergency, Jim Cronin, owner of Jim's Place, is preparing a sign which he displayed in his store during the last war. The sign will read, "Take one spoonful of sugar, Stir like bell! we don't mind the noise...
...novels published in 1941 and reported among the top five books on the New York Herald Tribune's best-seller charts throughout the year, six were published by Little, Brown. Biggest-selling novel of the year was Little, Brown's Keys of the Kingdom, by A. J. Cronin (TIME, July 21), which has been at or near the top of the list ever since the week it came out. Runners-up were James Hilton's Random Harvest and John P. Marquand's H. M. Pulham, Esquire, both Little, Brown books. Other Little, Brown hits: Nordhoff...
...Boudreau, a handsome, intelligent kid just two years out of college, is younger (by two and three years respectively) than Bucky Harris and Joe Cronin were when they first became managers of the Washington Senators. He would be the youngest manager in big-league history, had not Roger Peckinpaugh (whom Boudreau supplanted last week) once, at 23, managed the New York Yankees for two weeks...
...Wonders Harris and Cronin, with eight years of professional baseball behind them, each won a pennant in his first year as manager. Hot-stove habitues have no such hopes for Boudreau, who is practically a papoose. Moreover, the Indians are a group of notoriously temperamental individuals, often referred to as a "good team on paper because it folds so easily...
David Fenwick is duped by the cheap, voluptuous city-girl whom he marries, forgetting what it's like to be weaned on coal-dust, and sacrificing his ideals of mine-reform for the frustrating and impotent life of schoolmaster in his native hamlet. Novelist Cronin is a scientist, and the generally powerful plot of this movie goes back to his painstaking delineation of character. But when scenario-writers-in the inconceivably heroic turnabout of the mine-owner, Barras, and again in a superfluous and mystical epilogue-attempt to expand a stirring argument for public ownership into a vague essay...