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Patrick has built his play around a fundamentally intriguing situation. A friendless and unfriendly Scot, wounded badly and near death, is placed in a ward with four congenial and humor-loving soldiers. The other men are under orders to break down the reserve of the Scot and make him "belong" before his death, and the efforts of the four soldiers and their nurse to accomplish this task over the mountainous barrier of the Scotchman's intrespective soul make a penetratingly effective plot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 12/22/1944 | See Source »

That announcement in this column last week about the coming marriage of Gene Speer caused a bit of embarrassment to the gentleman. We can look for a sharp dropping off of Gene's marks. It seems that his "friendless," Cora, the marker, also reads the News...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/4/1944 | See Source »

...often the insane are neglected, friendless, locked out of the way and forgotten. The people who care for them are often callous and incompetent and make sick minds worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Halfway Up From Bedlam | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

Your account of Harold Ickes' friendless state ... is touching. However, you do not have to look further than Who's Who to discover that he has at least eight LL.Ds, perhaps more by this time. This is the approved academic method of saying "I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 6, 1941 | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...legions of boys gobbled him up between paper covers, price 5?. Their parents approved, for Frank was incarnate perfection ("frank and merry in nature, well in body and mind"). He was not only a superb athlete with no vices, but a protector of the bullied, a friend to the friendless. As a pitcher he could make his curve ball break either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return of a Hero | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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