Word: klorfein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...