Word: klug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wasted Whiskers. There is again much of the old nostalgia. Back on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Golden recalls, the old folks would mutter, "A klug zu Columbus'n" whenever a boy got a bloody nose or the steam was not hot enough in the Turkish baths. Rough translation: "Columbus should have broken his head before he discovered America." But there were consolations. "For 2^ plain" a lad could buy a large glass of clear Seltzer. Flavoring cost a penny more, but sometimes he could persuade the counterman to "put a little on the top" for nothing. Jewish...
...Norman R. Klug, 49, was promoted from vice president to president of Milwaukee's Miller Brewing Co. (Miller High Life), to succeed Frederick C. Miller, killed in a private-plane crash (TIME, Dec. 27). A Marquette University graduate ('27), Klug is a civic-minded lawyer, onetime police judge and former state assemblyman. He takes over the brewery as it is completing a $50 million expansion program...