Word: klorfein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That ended that. The stunned audience recovered in time to applaud. A solid, mild-mannered, aging gentleman in the rear of the basement rose and bowed. It was the first bow Julius Klorfein had ever taken...
Negligent newspaper reporters assumed that anyone who could afford that kind of 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...
...hobbies are work and finance," said Julius Klorfein. "I am active in Jewish charities and once I backed a Broadway show but it was a failure. That's about all there is to tell...