THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS (220 pp.)Max ShulmanDoubleday ($2.50).
Dobie Gillis is "a warm-blooded man of 18 summers" who enrolls at the University of Minnesota chiefly because "I was getting nowhere with the girls back home." But poor Dobiehe 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...
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