Over 21

Both approaching middle age, married couple Max and Paula ("Polly") Wharton are the founding editor of the New York Bulletin newspaper and a novelist-turned-movie-screenwriter respectively. Both are famous and extremely successful at their work. Despite his age, Max, against the wishes of the newspaper's Board of Directors headed by owner Robert Drexel Gow, enlists in the army to do what he considers his patriotic duty during World War II. Polly decides that once Max is in Officer's Candidate School in Florida, she will move into a small bungalow there temporarily, to be close to him, despite the fact that he needs to live in the barracks and won't have much time to spend with her. As she settles into the Army-wife life along with the other women in the bungalow complex, Max finds the rote memory of the highly scientific and technical information required more difficult compared to his fellow schoolmates half his age. He isn't even sure if he will graduate, and any distraction, especially thoughts of the Bulletin, could be his downfall. Meanwhile, Robert wants Max to return to his job, since in his mind Max's replacement is an utter failure. Robert threatens to sell the newspaper if Max doesn't return. This threat would become an even greater reality if Max graduates and gets assigned to duty. Polly does whatever she must to ensure that Max's focus remains on school and graduating.