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...Happened in Flatbush (20th Century-Fox) immortalizes the Brooklyn Dodgers (who won the National League pennant last season after 21 years of trying). The picture celebrates the travails and triumphs of a hammy Brooklyn baseball team, the civic and athletic regeneration of its manager, "Butterfingers" Maguire (Lloyd Nolan). The inspiration is authentic, but the film fumbles the atmosphere, fails to capture the special cachet of Brooklyn and "dem bums...
Right out of the artless Dodger tradition is the resolve of the movie baseball team's matronly owner (Sara Allgood) to bring Butterfingers back to manage her perennial losers. One of Butterfingers' previous boggles had lost the team a pennant, earned him a seven-year banishment from Brooklyn...
When Owner Allgood dies, Butterfingers cinches the pennant by wooing funds for new players from the svelte new socialite owner (Carole Landis). Soon it is clear that he is also about to cinch Owner Landis. Romance for Butterfingers lies just beyond the bleachers...
Both Avenger and Wildcat are built in the streamlined plant of the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.-and above each Grumman building flutters the fouled-anchor-&-"E" pennant, the Navy's tribute, (first of its kind to an airplane company...
Long a Navy favorite, Ebco last month won the official Navy "E" pennant. It has also made money. Profits last year were a record $2,832,000, even after returning $3,100,000 "excess" to the Navy.*Ebco was making subs so fast that it was beginning to worry about orders again; its huge backlog would have been all gone in 1943. But with a $400-600,000,000 slice of last week's appropriation, Ebco would no longer have to worry about that...