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...woman? Unlike most Lewis novels, Cass Timberlane posed no social problem. Blurbed ostentatiously as "a novel of husbands and wives," it chronicled the courtship and marriage of sedate, flute-playing Judge Timberlane, of the Minnesota district court, and Virginia Marshland, draftsman and designer for the Fliegend Fancy Box and Pasteboard Toy Manufacturing Company...
West Pointer Tompkins was picked in May 1943 to head the planning unit. Under him is a staff of 22. In his office in the Pentagon Building, bound between pasteboard covers, filed away in desk drawers are the blueprints for the machinery needed to demobilize the greatest Army in the nation's history. Within the past month, conferences have followed one another so rapidly that Tompkins' work basket and the baskets of his staff now are chockablock with nothing but demobilization reports...
...Scholarly Lieut. Colonel Borth delivered groceries as a boy, remembered how he used to crush "large firm rolls of toilet paper" flat so he could cram them into pasteboard cartons...
...simple genius for making all males, of any age, come to life, even in a few lines. Middle-aged women, like Tom's Aunt Polly, are fully and tenderly vivid. But Mark Twain's young women, says Critic DeVoto, are just so much "bisque" and "pasteboard." Mark Twain never could write about love...
...gymnasium, pool, squash courts, exercise rooms, tennis courts, and boathouses, which will emphasize House rowing, are all open to men, plus locker and towels, for their $8.00 pasteboard...