Word: hoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white house a few miles from Hamlin, W. Va. (pop. 850). His father, A. Hal Yeager, is a prosperous contract gas-well driller. Chuck is a hero to Hamlin, but the townspeople love him with special fervor because he refuses to act like a hero. Says Louie Hoff, music instructor for Lincoln County schools: "He isn't the biggety type. He's still the same nice kid." Mrs. Ocie J. Smith, who has taught school in Hamlin for nigh on 40 years, says: "Land sakes! Why, when I had Charlie in the third grade, he was a little...
...seat. The ending itself is in the best Odets fashion and couldn't have been more powerful had Leo the lion devoured the hero on stage. If Mr. Odets primary purpose was to expose, in his own way, the minds that govern the film industry, he has succeeded. Marcus Hoff, of Hoff Interprises, and his henchman, very ably played by J. Edward Bromberg and Paul McGrath respectively, are two characters not likely to be forgotten...
Three years ago, when he moved into A.C.S. , the society was run, says Bobst, "by fine people who weren't particularly qualified to carry on a business of that character." Bobst is qualified. He has been the $300,000-a-year president of Hoff-mann-LaRoche, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and is now president of the William R. Warner Co., Inc. and its cosmetic subsidiary, Richard Hudnut, Inc. He brought in new men, tightened up the organization, reduced costs from 4.7% of the amount collected in 1946 to 3.4% last year...
Yard: le, Parker, Ohler; lt, Noser, Sweeney; lg, Hickox, Sockel; c, Richardson; rg, Knight, Church; rt, Hoefing-hoff; re, Silver, Anderson; backs, O'Keefe, Zimmerman, Lindblatt, Manning, Milford, Evans...
Atlee Henkel Hoff...