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Junk fills the Claben hockshop from floor to rafters: one false step and the unwary visitor is crushed under an avalanche of "pianos . . . harps and trombones . . . baby carriages, women's bicycles . . . mattresses . . . top hats . . . bottle baskets."

The bums, priests, con men, whining housewives, burglars, waitresses, children and bewildered ordinary citizens who people Dragnet seem as sorrowfully genuine as old pistols in a hockshop window.

In Osaka, Japan, Hockshop Proprietor Hiroshi Ueda, president of the local pawnbrokers' association, was fined 500,000 yen and kicked out of the cartel for charging customers 6% interest a month, a rate out of line with the customary bite of 9%.

Composer Schwartz, in a hockshop ballad called Mine 'Til Monday and in a furniture-shop fandango called Look Who's Dancing, lets rip with oldfashioned, foam-on-the-beer high spirits.