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years have marshmellowed Jerome Weidman. His 1937 bestselling novel stingingly chronicled the rise of a Manhattan Garment District amoralist named Harry Bogen who was sharper than a Seventh Avenue lapel. In fashioning a musical from that book. Weidman has turned his whole-souled heel into a halfhearted villain, poured sentimental goo over the satire, and given Harry a last-scene redemptive delousing unmatched since the Hays office took in ethical cleansing...
...Harry Bogen (Elliott Gould) is a fox in a chicken coop. He breaks his fellow shipping clerks' strike, raids his former employer's staff to start his own dress firm, ditches his loyal girl friend for a platinum-pated actress, rooks his partners out of their life savings, and check-bounces the firm into bankruptcy to keep his sleek chick's wrists warm (with bracelets). But most of the time Harry is too homey to be unwholesome. He rushes home to Mama (Lillian Roth), counts on her for cooking, and sweeps her into an Oedipalsy song...
Lowell House: A. Michael Washburn, David S. Bogen, Warren P. Miller, William H. Burns, William L. Zentgraf, James S. Johns, Allan E. Mack, Thomas W. Maher, Samuel Otis...
...York City's decision last fall to fingerprint prospective teachers brought a yelp of "undignified" from the city's Teachers Union. Last week the city's chief teacher examiner called it "extremely helpful." Of 4,545 applicants, said Dr. Isidore Bogen, 134 proved to have police records, including several convicted sex offenders and one murder suspect. Many offenses were minor, but by failing to mention them in applications, the prospective teachers convicted themselves of lying...
...days after Bogen's report, police arrested an English teacher for burglary and attempted rape, found that his record carried two Peeping Tom convictions. So what about those who, like him, got in before fingerprinting? Bogen has decided to fingerprint them when they take tests for promotion. If the police-record rate of the applicants applies to practicing teachers too. 3% of the city's teachers are in for trouble...