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...Melville Goodwin, Novelist Marquand's stock does not plummet, but it passes a dividend. His effort to show that Army folk are somehow different from civilians, and stronger on the simpler virtues, falls flat because his examination of Mel never gets beyond his surface manner. The old Marquand narrative skill is still there, with its painless transitions and smooth flashbacks. The talk is easy and natural, whether the talkers are Pentagon brass or radio tinhorns. But they all seem to be saying the things that better Marquand characters have said before...
Boykin's bill will probably die in committee. What will not die is the issue his bill raised: if men are recruited and organized on a fight-with-your-buddies basis, then morale is bound to plummet when the Army, for one excellent reason or another, breaks up the regional divisions. Until the Defense Department finds the courage to stand up to the politically powerful National Guard Association, U.S. defense is going to waste billions of dollars and much precious manpower on an antiquated and disruptive form of military organization...
Skiman (Toasting feet at fire, cocktail in hand): "Prettiest up on Suicide Plummet...
Congratulations . . . The one man who symbolizes Anglo-American unity, without which the whole world would slide (or plummet) back into the Eastern darkness of the antiChrist...
...choice is free to marry, she does her own proposing, pouncing on a social-climbing old rake who had won her heart by pinching her at 14. She gets her man but loses her fortune: the elder Montdores strike her from their will and seem to plummet, from shock, into old age. Author Mitford is no woman to let her story stop there. With 80 pages to go, she rushes in scented, scintillating Cousin Cedric, the new heir from Canada, to charm Lady Montdore off the shelf. A face lifting, some rigorous massage and the trick of pronouncing the word...