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This is a collection of short stories written during the 1940s for college humor magazines and then gathered together to make a book. The author promises the readers that these stories have been published in Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post, Today's Woman and American Magazine. Thus, these stories are guaranteed to be clean. Eventually, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was made into a long running TV series starring Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver. Bob Denver went on to become the lead character in "Gilligan's Island". The story line is that Dobie Gillis longs for this girl or that girl or for just about any girl, but no matter how hard he tries he can never achieve a "happy ending". This book was first published in 1945 back when couples actually got married before having sex, so sometimes Dobie gets what he wants only by marrying the girl.