Books: Smart Guy's Fall

WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?—Jerome Weidman—Simon & Schuster ($2.50).

The 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 it all.

What's in it for Me? will rejoice readers: It narrates Harry Bogen's decline & fall. Harry is...

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