Word: hauff
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...Marriage of Figaro" is not successful. Since the actors who play Count Almaviva and his retinue are not singing the roles, we should have the right to expect good acting and pleasing countenances. Instead, they posture and grimace with little sense of what is happening. Especially annoying is Angela Hauff's habit, in the role of Susanna, of smiling in all the wrong places. Perhaps she was smiling at the efforts of director George Wildhagen...
...long ago as the summer of 1946, plump, slick-pated Jerry E. Hauff, pastor of the Full Gospel Assemblies in Christ Inc. Church of Van Nuys, Calif., got the word that doomsday was approaching. "Voices from heaven" speaking incoherent foreign tongues had brought it to him. He translated for his congregation and reported that a great storm from the north was going to knock off all mankind-all, that is, who didn't sell their property and flee to the mountains...
...Parson Hauff didn't like the sound of this, or so he said, and he asked the voices for further guidance. Take canned food, said the voices, and go. Where? Jerry was told that the best place for fleeing was remote, snake-infested Soledad Canyon, 65 miles from Los Angeles, on the edge of the Southern California desert. He bought 520 acres of it, and founded Eden City-the first, he said, of his "cities of refuge." Two dozen of his elderly parishioners sold their property, handed Jerry the money and headed for safety...
Last week eight of them grimly filed suits against Jerry Hauff. They charged that he had forced them to work between 50 and 80 hours a week, without proper food and water, and demanded that he hand back $50,000 which they had forked over after selling their homes, $12,000 they thought he owed them for labor. Twelve more oldsters were preparing similar claims. The great storm which Jerry E. Hauff had predicted seemed to be on its way, and heading right for Jerry E. Hauff...
...yard back stroke-won by E. E. Stowell '34; second, E. G. Helvension '33; third, Hauff (P). Time-1 min., 44 4-5 sec. (New Harvard record...