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Atlee Henkel Hoff...
...current American Journal of Surgery, California's Dr. Clarence A. Split-hoff considers the causes & cures of backache. Chief causes: poor posture, extra fat, weak bone structure, accidents, high heels -which can throw the wearer's pelvis off balance...
...Charles Hoff, famed pole vaulter and collaborationist director of Nazi athletics in Norway, meekly gave himself...
...anything we can write or say the type of mentality which has been attracted to Quisling in Occupied Norway. . . . The rubbery highflying fantasy of the tale ... is reminiscent of another "classic" in the history of Norwegian letters. I refer to the "novel" that came from the pen of Charles Hoff, onetime world champion pole vaulter, shortly after he returned to Norway after his escapades in America. Hoff's story ended with an earthquake destroying Manhattan, and with the poor but honest hero marrying the multimillionaire's daughter. Yes, you guessed it. Hoff is also one of Quisling...
...last saw the Great Hoff in the winter and spring of 1925-26, when he broke the world's indoor pole vault record 15 times...