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Without Love (TIME, April 27) has gained no luster since its three-month tour last spring. A coyly told story of two young people (Katharine Hepburn and Elliot Nugent) who marry for companionship, in due time lift the embargo on sex and wind up madly in love, it is chiefly a field day for Katharine Hepburn and her dressmaker. Actress Hepburn makes the most of her coltish charm. Playwright Barry contributes some witty wisecracks, but not much else...
...away the runways so that the pilot cannot tell where to land, or they tip the nose of the plane down so that a propeller prangs. At other times they can be as nice as can be, even get invited by air-gunners into their turrets for warmth and companionship...
...have forfeited most of their customary freedoms-of habeas corpus, of information, of occupation, of buying, of travel. Last week the War Office took wry notice of one freedom which, as everybody else knew all along, has grown as lustily as a cucumber vine. This is the freedom of companionship...
...think our Jack would not attend to the most pressing necessities of nature unless he could give a reason for it' "); Charles James Fox ("the most delightful Englishman of his time"); William Pitt (". . . passing from Fox to Pitt . . . is like leaving a lighted house where there was companionship and dancing and supper, to walk home alone through streets solemn with midnight"); Pope ("Is it 'poetry'?"); Swift ("Swift's living brain was akin to other men's in dreams"); Defoe ("Defoe was less of an artist-by circumstances, temperament, or aspiration-than almost any other great...
Surgeon General Thomas Parran, a devout Catholic, believes that the only solution to the problem is for soldiers to remain continent. He would like to see pretty girls hired for recreation jobs in Army camps, for he thinks that soldiers are starved for companionship...