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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joan Hoff Thorsen, a recently married college graduate (Northwestern U.), a New York model for less than a year, shot up from nowhere to ring the bell like this: in the next few weeks her face will be on the covers of LIFE, Woman's Home Companion, Saturday Evening Post, Redbook and American Magazine; Walter Winchell labeled her the most beautiful model in Manhattan. Why: her face; the rest: 35-in. bust, ditto hips, 25-in. waist, 5 ft. 8½ in. height, 114 lb. Eleanor Roosevelt modeled again, this time a two-piece wool suit-dress in Eleanor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Models | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...called a stenographer; her father and mother; and the young man she thinks occasionally of marrying, Max Fine, a C.P.A. who will not let himself be called a bookkeeper. All the stories (originally printed in The New Yorker and now illustrated by The New Yorker's Sydney Hoff) achieve the distinction of being not only funny but sympathetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Weeds of Speech | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Died. Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, 48, tiny, roistering gambler, promoter, boxing-stable manager who made millions selling illicit liquor during Prohibition years, lost everything after Repeal, ended by running a soda-pop juke joint in West Philadelphia; apparently of an overdose of sleeping tablets; in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 5, 1941 | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...Jackson, N. H. Born in Austria, Jewish Max Steuer emigrated to Manhattan as a boy, worked day & night to pay for his legal education. At the height of his career, candid, inconspicuous Steuer was reputed to have made $1,000,000 a year. Among his clients: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Gangster John Torrio, ex-Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Fight Promoter Tex Rickard, onetime Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Charles E. Mitchell, onetime president of National City Bank of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 2, 1940 | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

Born in 1822, died in 1924, Cornelius Cole helped make California an anti-slavery State, and went to the U. S. Senate after the Civil War. Eighteen years ago, on Senator Cole's looth birthday, Paul Hoff man had heard him speak. Said Hoffman: "He declared that human liberties were won in this country at a tremendous sacrifice of blood and fortune; that we must be ready to fight again, if necessary, to preserve them. 'Remember, gentlemen,' he said, 'as a small boy I sat on the knees of Revolutionary soldiers who had lost arms fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old Man's Warning | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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