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...biggest heel in contemporary U. S. fiction is a smart guy named Harry Bogen. This Bronx boy made good last year in Jerome Weidman's I Can Get It For You Wholesale as the slickest, crookedest trader in Manhattan's garment centre, who railroaded his partner to prison, ended up with plenty of dough, a fancy chorus girl named Martha Mills and an invincible conviction that he knew...
What's in it for Me? will rejoice readers: It narrates Harry Bogen's decline & fall. Harry is such a skunk-like character that in the first book many a reader may have been too sickened to notice Author Weidman's strong disapproval of his hero. In this sequel Author Weidman gives Harry a moral shellacking which only an idiot could miss. But before Harry goes down he puts on a fast show. After loafing three months on his last crooked earnings, Harry decides to bounce Martha and go back into the dress business. The trouble...
...Harry Bogen will not be missed. If Author Weidman has any more like Harry up his sleeve, God help the good name of Manhattan's garment centre...
...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's credit...
...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...