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...thing to do: get slick little Crook-Defender Max D. Steuer, "greatest trial lawyer of our time." A brilliant, inconspicuous, hawk-faced Austrian Jew, Max Steuer has defended George Graham Rice, tireless stock swindler; Maurice Connolly, Queens sewer grafter. Harry Daugherty, boss of the Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia underworld chief. He is the profession's ablest exponent of the old legal saw for a weak case: "Try the judge, try your opponent, try the police but don't try your client." Once when he had Anthony J. Drexel Biddle as a witness he was afraid...
Married. Paul Whiteman, 41, bandmaster; and Margaret Livingston, 29, cinemactress; at Morrison, Colo. Jazzman Whiteman, who upon his divorce from wife No. 3, Dancer Vanda Hoff, declared: "Marriage is for the middle class, not for artists" (TIME, Feb. 9), posed with wife No. 4 beside a wedding gift-a pensive, plebeian...
Engaged. Paul Whitcman, jazz band leader; and Margaret Livingston, cinemactress. In February Mr. Whiteman was divorced from Vanda Hoff. dancer (TIME...
Neumann's hero is a political assassin. Hoff, former German officer, since the Revolution a professional dancer in a Berlin cabaret, is leader of an extreme group in an anti-Government party. This group decides to precipitate a counterrevolution by killing the Prime Minister; as leader. Hoff assumes sole responsibility for the job. He has everything figured out; all preparations made. Evening before the attempt, between dances at the cabaret. Hoff has a conversation with a man who looks so much like Hoff he might be his brother. They go home, spend the evening together. The man turns...
...Hoff is a soldier: he goes through with his plan. There are no hitches. He shoots the Prime Minister, makes a clean getaway, but decides not to escape to Switzerland, to stay in Berlin instead. Then his frozen will begins to thaw. To his horror he begins to realize he has murdered a man who was not his enemy, who should have been his friend. Hertz, made of weaker stuff than Hoff, tries to persuade him to do as he himself has done: to compromise, to live with unlaid ghosts. When Hertz sees that Hoff is determined to give himself...