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...money for a broken-down fiddle was a known man. They were wrong. The city-room files were bare of Julius Klorfein's name. At his penthouse apartment he apologized for this unfortunate anonymity: "I've just spent my life working hard and building up my cigar business, and I guess I didn't have any time to get in Who's Who or What's What or anything like that...
Julius Klorfein has been busy all his life. Now 58, he is president of Garcia Grande Cigars, Inc., manufacturers of some of the U.S.'s best-selling nickel and two-for-a-nickel smokes. He came to the U.S. from Russia 40-odd years ago and began turning out his own cigars in the window of a little street shop in Brooklyn. His formula for a mild, cheap cigar caught on. It bloomed into tobacco plantations in Connecticut, factories in the U.S., Cuba, Puerto Rico-all turning out millions of Garcia Grandes...
...what doctors call a good patient." Britons envisaged "Winnie" wan but resplendent in the cream silk pajamas he loves. They imagined him resenting his confinement, glowering at the doctors, harassing the nurses, worrying over state affairs, demanding a Scotch & soda, trying to bribe attendants to bring him a cigar...
...been called the 'old man's friend.'" As usual, Winston Churchill scorned the ordinary, weathered the crisis and last week was pronounced out of danger. A bulletin on the state of his health added that the Prime Minister had been allowed to have his first cigar...
...forefathers of this Boston Brahmin two Massachusetts mill towns are named. His older brother Percival discovered the canals of Mars and the planet Pluto. His younger sister was the cigar-smoking poetess Amy. At Harvard young Lawrence was a brilliant student of mathematics and never lost a foot race. Still proud of his fitness some 50 years later, he one day challenged Lord Bryce (The American Commonwealth) to climb a picket fence built around the Harvard athletic field. Bryce declined, but Lowell nimbly scrambled over...