Word: max
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry Green. Seven bright young crumbs from the British upper crust set out for a holiday in France; they never get there. A dense fog anchors them to a London terminal-and four hours of each other's clabbering company. The rich and amiable sponsor of the party, Max Adey, wangles hotel rooms to wait in, and they go for each other, hammers & tongues...
...girls, Julia, is out to trip Max into matrimony when a recent flame named Amabel shows up with an older idea. She appears in a dressing gown, soon has Max frothing and fumbling. When the pair rejoins the others, Amabel looks "like a cat that has just had its own mouse coming among other cats who had only had the smell." But Amabel's triumph is short. When the fog lifts, the only kitten Max has eyes for is gentle Julia, who sports retractable claws...
...MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS (220 pp.)-Max Shulman-Doubleday...
...getting nowhere with the girls back home." But poor Dobie-he has his setbacks at Minnesota too. Perhaps the barber who gives him crew cuts has mowed too close and sliced away what little brain he had. In any case, as described in this collection of magazine stories by Max Shulman, Dobie's activities keep involving him in such things as academic failures, incarceration for love's sake in a semester of home ec., and the righteous rages of his father, who tells Dobie: "I will pound you into the ground like a tent stake...
...basic thought and planning of this work fell naturally to Max Ways, Foreign News Editor of TIME for the last five years. He has at his disposal, in addition to the regular staff of U.S. and foreign correspondents, a task force from the MARCH OF TIME, which was detached from its work on Crusade in the Pacific to edit films showing how events before, during and after the war led to today's situations...