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Bogen knew their monopoly could not last, so while business was still good he sold his interest to Tootsie, started his own dress business. His partners, both lured away from other firms, were a crack salesman and a first-rate designer, Meyer Babushkin. As soon as he had picked the salesman's brains, Bogen froze him out. Thanks to Babushkin's ability and Bogen's shrewdness, the money rolled in. Meantime Bogen's mother began to worry about him, tried to settle him down by making a match with a solid, sensible Jewish girl. Bogen...
...Martha took up an increasing amount of his time and his money. To make a hit with her he drew more and more cash from the business. To get the cash, he persuaded simple-minded Babushkin to open a private account, cash firm checks there and hand him the money. Bogen explained this procedure to his partner by saying that it was a scheme for beating the Government out of a big income tax. As Bogen's pursuit of Martha got more expensive but no more successful, so much money went down the drain that the firm...
...referee's court the matter of Babushkin's cash checks soon came to light. Babushkin could give no reasonable explanation. Bogen swore his partner had been victimizing him. Babushkin went to jail. Smart Guy Bogen, totting up his assets, found he had $20,000, a car, an apartment, a snappy wardrobe, an actress. And he was still a smart...
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