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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMERICA AS A CIVILIZATION (1,036 pp.) -Max Lerner-Simon & Schuster...
RALLY ROUND THE FLAG, BOYS! (278 pp.) -Max Shulman-Doubleday...
...known Shulmaniacs currently at large in the U.S. This cultish tribe spends easy ($3.50 per spindly copy of Rally Round the Flag, Boys!) and laughs easy-at soggy puns, campus wheezes, G.I. antics and leering badinage about the hot-and-cold war between the sexes. As a humorist, Max (Barefoot Boy with Cheek) Shulman is a kind of roadhouse Wodehouse, a breezy, rattlebrained funnyman whose books can and probably should be read with...
...read 30 books every I day this year, he might have plowed through all the books published in the U.S. during 1957-an experience more than likely to induce a nervous breakdown. TIME'S chief book critic, Max Gissen, and his four colleagues try to avoid that fate, but they do more than enough reading to know America's literary output as well as a broker knows the market charts. For their pick of 1957, see BOOKS, The Year's Best...
Back in office as lord mayor, beefy Max Brauer, 70, was quick to point out that the Hamburg Socialists had succeeded where the national party had failed, because of his moderate, down-to-earth and pro-Western brand of Socialism. "The Social Democrats in Hamburg," he said, "have shed the outworn dogma about being a party solely of workers ... The most important task we have is to set the example for a great people's party drawn from all classes . . . and to shape these new times...