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...Purchase Price (Warner) is a simple tale of struggle and blind love in North Dakota. George Brent is a bovine farmer who needs a cook and wife. Barbara Stanwyck, Manhattan nightclub girl, wants to get-away-from-it-all. She answers his advertisement. The picture hews close to the line of probability. The farmer's life is dirty, uncomfortable, exacting. His house is a bare sty. His manners are bad. Repelled at first, Barbara Stanwyck grows to love George Brent as his woes accumulate. A onetime suitor appears, lends Barbara money to pay mortgage interest, is knocked...
...behold an omnibus collection of U. S. art. He had picked one picture by each of 49 living U. S. artists, two dead ones. The 1,300 eyed the 51. In August, Director Poland's collection will begin a long itinerary to Honolulu, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, Denver, Omaha, Kansas City. Critics last week called it one of the shrewdest summaries yet made of contemporary U. S. art. Art in San Diego was in good hands last week...
...Barbara Gastell had guts, too. She quit school, went up to Miss Thompson's boarding house in London to request that she be taken back to São Maharo with the missionary. As Barbara entered the cheap little room she saw that Miss Thompson's things were all packed. Miss Thompson was sitting there in an attitude of patient waiting. She had just died...
...Barbara learned what she could about medicine in a year, knocked difficulty after difficulty flat. The small boat that was taking her ashore at São Maharo nearly foundered. The sailors threw overboard her two truckloads of supplies and her bag of clothes, then turned and rowed back for their ship. But Barbara was going in the other direction. She dived from the teetering gunwale and began swimming for the dark beach...
From the pitching black waters Barbara's voice came: "All right...