Rally Round the Flag Boys by Max Shulman

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1958. Bantam. 8th Printing.

Max Shulman's comic yarn about what happens when the US Army invades a small Connecticut town.

Advice to the men before major social combat.

"Hear me good. Put on your newest, spankin'est uniform, shine shoes and buttons, put a pretty little knot in your necktie. Look sharp That's half the secret. The other haof is to ack mis'able. Ain't nothin' attracks a gal like ackin' mis'able. Tell her you're lonesome for the gal back home, so she knows she ain't scratching' after a prize nobody wants. Then tell her you can't stay sad long around her, and begin gettin' frisky and sparklin'. If that don't get her, she ain't worth havin'. Stay Loose. Remember--Man proposes, God disposes."

And with these words of wisdom--the U. S. Army almost succeeds in moving Putnam's Landing halfway across Long Island Sound.