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In The Bronx, sprawling northern borough of New York City, live a great many Jewish people of all shapes and sizes. Two who were about the same shape and size lived in the same apartment building at No. 250 East 178th Street. If you did not know them well, you might easily have confused Philip Orlovsky, onetime clothing workers union official (now in the textile-shrinking business), and Irving (Isadore) Penn, 42, royalties manager for G. Schirmer, Inc., music publishers. A jolly homebody with no interest outside of his family (wife & two children), music publishing (he was up to $4,200-a-year...

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