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FIFTH FLEET Ryan (Braves) 2b. Vernon (Senators) If. McQuillen (Browns)cf. Mize (Giants) Ib. Rowe (Phillies) rf. Brancato (Athletics) 3b. Glossop (Cubs) ss. Dickey (White Sox) c. Trucks (Tigers) p. Vander Meer (Reds) p. Klinger (Pirates...
Hitchcock's foreign correspondent is one Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea), who gets his job because his boss thinks Europe ought to be covered by a crime reporter instead of an economist. Johnny gets his assignment to find out whether a Low Countries statesman named Van Meer (Albert Basserman) has a chance to delay war. Johnny's company includes a suave peace crusader (Herbert Marshall) and his wide-eyed daughter (Laraine Day), a cucumberish British newshawk (George Sanders), a character (Robert Benchley) who is to the life what Robert Benchley undoubtedly would be if he had been a foreign...
...monologue giving the historical setting, sketching the traces of old times from which the author has imagined his scenes. The panorama extends from the Pueblo Indian civilization that "watched the steel and silver helmets of the invaders spark with sunlight" in the distance, to an imitation Hollywood pr'meer conducted by a promoter in a sound truck under a local marquee. It is an eventful 400 years...
...come back, but Paul is done. Dizzy has joined Paul, to all intents and purposes. Hubbell, true, shows signs of a comeback, but Grove can twirl only once a week, and where is Eldon Auker? And what has happened to the two consecutive no-hit gamer, one J. Vander Meer of Cincinnati...
Last week, however, hardworking, lanky Bucky Walters whizzed past them all. So far this season he had won 19 games-five more than Derringer, twelve more than Grissom, 14 more than Vander Meer -and he was batting .338 to boot. He was not only the No. 1 pitcher of both major leagues but the difference between success and failure in the Reds' pennant race...