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...take this opportunity to put in a couple of plugs for John E. Green, the second mate, and Captain Cronin. They were the two most popular officers that I have ever seen on a ship. . . . An example of how Captain Cronin is capable of quelling trouble and solving problems without creating unnecessary ill feeling: One day a troublesome sailor, who hated the cook seemingly for no other reason than the cook was a Greek, swept into the captain's office and wanted to know how much it would cost to bust up the galley. Much to the troublemaker...
Since that day, jovial Joe Engel has probably discovered more big-time baseballers than any other scout in the business. He dug up Goose Goslin, Alvin Crowder, Bump Hadley, Buddy Myer, Cecil Travis, Bucky Harris. He also unearthed Joe Cronin, picked up in Kansas City for $7,500 and sold seven years later -after he had become the Senators' manager and married the boss's daughter - to the Boston Red Sox for $250,000. Engel's "finds" helped bring Washington three pennants in ten years...
...ailing overgrowth of superabundant sensibility"; he was "guilty of the heresy of expressive form: the belief . . . that life best expresses itself in art by duplicating its own confusion in the transferred form of the spectator's emotion." Products of the run of generally read novelists-Fabricius, Feuchtwanger, Cronin, Stribling, Lewis-are briefly dismissed, not for lack of interest or use, but "because they show little material for literary criticism to fasten...
Quiet and unassuming, Lupien, who captained the Varsity baseball team in his Junior year and led the basketball squad in his last year at college, showed no much stuff in the minors that at the end of their current season Manager Joe Cronin had him recalled to fill in for the tiring Jimmy Foxx...
...Cronin's protagonists are standard stock, the rest of his cast is even more so. Painfully familiar are the kindly old doctor who plays solitaire, the desiccated matron in black who hatches plots, the wife of the sanatorium's chief who likes to have her virtue sullied by the hero of the piece. Reasonably well acted, Jupiter Laughs could be diagnosed as a sad case of dramatic leukemia...