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...triumph, four games to three, gave the National League its first World's Championship since Frankie Frisch's Gas House Gang from St. Louis upset these same Tigers under almost identical circumstances...
Forest Evashevski, captain and one-man gang of Wolves, is Harmon's pathfinder extraordinary. Crimson ends and tackles will feel his blocking touch in the Stadium Saturday. A third member of the Michigan backfield is pile-driving Bob Westfall, the fullback. If Senior halfback Paul Kremer gets a definite medical okay, Coach Crisler will be able to field one of the best backfields of all time. It's useless to try and concoct new superlatives for Harmon; just try to imagine him as a combination of all the others. He is just as elusive as Dartmouth's little Ted Arice...
...pretext of a plot, 2) feels vague cosmic significances in man's wanderings. This week two picaresque stories are mirror images of each other. In Transit U. S. A. (Stokes; $2.50) Author W. L. River leads simple-minded Curly Martin from California through Arizona deserts, a Missouri road gang, Chicago's skid road, Ohio industrial warfare to Manhattan in a vain search for the capitalist who unwittingly ruined Curly 's business. Martin Flavin's Mr. Littlejohn (Harper; $2.50) is a simple-minded capitalist who drifts from Manhattan to California in search of Truth. Like Curly Martin...
Johnny turns out to be dodging the law for an old murder charge. His flight dumps him into the outwardly grim but inwardly golden presence of Hap O'Connor (Pat O'Brien), a straw boss in charge of a gang of roughnecks who shuttle from field to field drilling wells. When Johnny saves Hap's life they become friends, exchange cigarets, seldom smile. Hap's girl Linda (Frances Farmer) hates Johnny because he calls her "freckle nose," but that is only a prelude to romance. Hap turns on Johnny for pilfering Linda, but the triangle...
...Most gasp-worthy Winchell phenomenon: "Having been an intimate friend of Owney Madden. New York's No. 1 gang leader of the prohibition era, he became in the short space of two years, the public pal of J. Edgar Hoover, the No. 1 G-man of the repeal era." In 1932 Winchell's intimacy with gangland led to fear he would be rubbed out for knowing too much. In terror he fled to California, returned weeks later with a new enthusiasm for law, G-men, Uncle Sam, Old Glory...