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...Manhattan, ruddy, quiet, cigar-smoking Julius Klorfein, who had already bought $2,735,000 in bonds, including $1,000,000 worth for Jack Benny's old violin (TIME, March 8), bought at auction the autographed galley proofs of Wendell Willkie's new book, One World, for $100,000. A Detroit policeman, making house-to-house calls, came away from one home with a $100,000 subscription. The home owner: Speedboat Manufacturer Gar Wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Attack! | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...selling at the rate of 50,000 copies a day. . It was being produced from four sets of plates and at two binderies. Rights were already sold for British, Swedish and Spanish editions. Bound galley proofs had been auctioned for $100,000 worth of war bonds to Mr. Julius Klorfein, who also bought Jack Benny's violin for $1,000,000 in bonds (TIME, March 8). Rival publishers grudgingly guessed that the book might sell 5,000,000 copies. (Record-breaker G.W.T.W. sold 3,000,000.) Simon and Schuster feared paper problems after the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fastest-Selling Book | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

Fondling the fiddle which had brought him momentary fame, he was asked whether he could play it. Said Julius Klorfein: "If I was a violinist, I wouldn't be able to buy a million dollars worth of war bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: If I Was a Violinist . . . | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...there was more. Mr. Klorfein had an afterthought: "My wife bought some bonds at the Gimbel party, too. How much was it, dearest?" She said it was only $175,000 worth, but "of course, I've been buying war bonds all along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: If I Was a Violinist . . . | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...occasion of Julius Klorfein's purchase was not unpremeditated. A perceptive young woman named Edna Skinner, actress, radio commentator, fashion model, now a member of the A.W.V.S., heard that Mr. Klorfein had bought $500,000 worth of war bonds recently during a trip to Florida. She thought it would be fine if he could double that in Gimbels' Bargain Basement. Julius Klorfein agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: If I Was a Violinist . . . | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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