Word: rogoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Total Security. The mock-hero of Author Ernst Pawel's From the Dark Tower unintentionally reminds the reader that Jonahs as well as Ahabs go looking for their private whales. Abe Rogoff is a middle-aged Jonah just asking to be swallowed. For ten years he has been a snickering outsider ("to take business seriously is a kind of disease") camouflaged as a docile insider in the pseudo-Gothic spires of Manhattan's Tower Mutual Life Insurance Co. Abe's disease might be diagnosed as undulant barricade fever, the nostalgic complaint of an ex-free-lover...
ARTHUR H. ROGOFF Long Island City...
...association of 160 Jewish leaders chosen at yearly elections, was never organized for profit, now has an editorial staff of 40. Since a reporter, after a six months' trial, is hired for life, 25 staffers have worked there more than 30 years, including Acting Editor Harry Rogoff, 67. As Editor Cahan has become less active, Rogoff has taken over more & more of his duties. Business boss is General Manager Alexander Kahn, a genial lawyer whose friends describe him as "the East Side's ambassador to the uptown Jews...