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...soldiers in the Detroit area had voted on it last week, they would doubtless have made it unanimous that Barbara Brown is vixen-of-the-year. Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), 22-year-old Barbara Brown got mad when a soldier failed to show up for a date-and took it out on the Army...
...capable of great things. William Lyon Phelps led the reviewers' chorus in praising his first novel, Young Glory. Hurd was perplexed between the rich advances offered him by Publisher H. H. Ramsay and more modest prospects which would make serious writing possible. Ramsay's brash, glittering daughter Barbara attracted him. When she turned him down, he ran to his second cousin Mary for comfort, mistook his infantilism for love, deceived Mary to boot. He married Barbara. Mary moved into spinsterhood, scientific work and philanthropy, became in the end an impressive woman...
...Barbara's turn lasted nearly 20 years while Jim, as a Hollywood writer, galloped downhill from glory to glory. Barbara, at length, began to enjoy herself with the one really spurious character in the book, an opportunistic stallion of a Russian painter, whose sudden death landed her in a shrewdly described sanatorium. There she learned enough about herself and her husband to win the reader's sympathy...
...cowardly to try again with his wife or even to admit sympathy for her; too cowardly to ask her to divorce him; too cowardly to admit to himself that Constance had anything to do with his desire for divorce; too cowardly to break the news, when Barbara did divorce him, to their daughter; too cowardly, finally, to marry Constance when that became possible. In his misery he found a return to the womb-a girl named Briggsy...
Tall, genial Frank H. Bartholomew, 44, is a newsman who has in his time covered for the United Press such topflight news stories as the William Desmond Taylor murder in Los Angeles, the Thalia Fortescue Massie assault case in Honolulu, the Santa Barbara earthquake, the loss of the dirigible Macon. In 1938 he stopped reporting, became a United Press vice president, in charge of the Pacific Coast area. As such he sat behind a San Francisco desk, sent other United Pressmen forth to Pacific battlefields. But Frank Bartholomew grew restless...