Herb Streifer was born in the Bronx in 1915, an area where upward, aspiring immigrants--Jewish, Italian and Irish--went to escape the ghettos of the lower East Side. When his father died in 1930 at the beginning of the Great Depression, Streifer was fifteen. He and his siblings helped their mother run the family grocery in Elmhurst, Queens through the depression years. Cash became so tight they had to give