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...Comparative Guide to American Colleges, by James Cass and Max Birnbaum ($8.95; paperback, $3.95), is a recently published ambitious consumer's guide to 1,132 colleges, with descriptions that are fair, yet frank, avoiding the dishonesty and exaggeration of some school catalogues and the dry statistical shorthand of other compilations...
...Died. Max McGraw, 81, appliance manufacturer, founder of McGraw Electric Co., who in 1926 bought patents to the pop-up toasters then found only in restaurants, went on to make Toastmaster a household word and produce every manner of electrical home convenience, acquiring Thomas A. Edison Inc. in 1957 to become one of the U.S.'s biggest appliance makers; of a heart attack; in Salt Lake City...
...corner the Khrushchev story, the Times mustered all three of its house Kremlinologists-Harry Schwartz, who knows Soviet economics, Harrison E. Salisbury, who can read Pravda and Izvestia without a pony, and Max Frankel, who taps Russian experts in the State Department. Foreign News Editor Emanuel Freedman calmly placed a phone call to Moscow 955477, three hours later was talking to the Times's Moscow Bureau Chief Henry Tanner. In the meantime, other messages had been relayed to Tanner through the Times's London and Paris bureaus...
...Max Ascoli, editor and publisher of the magazine, in an editor's note called the Galbraith letter "a rationalization for a political ruthlessness...
Cost of Admission. The book is one of the richest publishing coups of the century, simultaneously released worldwide in eight languages. Publishers had been angling for it for years, without response. In 1957 Max Reinhardt of Britain's Bodley Head press wangled an invitation to meet Chaplin through Novelist Graham Greene. After dinner at Chaplin's secluded mansion in the little Swiss village of Corsier, Chaplin shyly asked his guests if they would like to hear him read aloud some trial passages from a book he was starting to write. "It was a shattering, staggering experience," Reinhardt recalls...