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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, Kathleen Burke married another friend of France, Los Angeles Artist (portraits and murals) Girard van Barkaloo Hale, who served for two years with an American Field Service unit attached to the 22nd French Infantry; in recognition of his devoted service, France awarded him the Croix de Guerre with two citations...
...impressionist friends, Vincent Van Gogh was a pathetic puzzle. Renoir, Monet and Pissarro all painted nature ripe and smiling in iridescent veils of sunlight, but the touchy, red-bearded Dutchman couldn't manage that; he seemed to be after something different...
...until after Van Gogh committed suicide in 1890 did the world begin to find out what he was pursuing. In ten years of agony, bliss and hard labor, he had poured out some 900 drawings and 800 paintings, written hundreds of letters. Self-expression was all he cared about, and the self he expressed was so affectionate, violent and wide open to the world around him that the circle of his admirers has broadened with each generation...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Pinero's The Thunderbolt, with Van Heflin and Celeste Holm...
...year later, Presbrey had to dodge gunfire again to get another beat. He was on his way for a quiet beer just as the cops flushed Dillinger Henchman Homer van Meter, then Public Enemy No. 1, from an apartment hiding place. In trying to escape, Van Meter ran in front of Presbrey's car. Presbrey jammed on the brake and the cops poured 40 slugs into Van Meter. Now, after such narrow escapes, Paul Presbrey is getting a little mystical about his luck. Says he: "Sometimes it scares me. But I couldn't stop going if I wanted...