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This week Count McCormack was busily arranging for curly-haired Christy Lynch's operatic debut with the Dublin Grand Opera Society. "I want especially," said McCormack, "to see him make his first operatic appearance in Dublin . . . singing in The Tales of Hoffmann which I sang myself many years ago many times...
Dividing Point. In 1944 the Red Army confidently expected no further repetitions of World War I's East Prussian history. In 1914 the team of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, his brilliant chief of staff General Erich Ludendorff and chief of operations General Max Hoffmann had gone to the rescue of the Reich's defeated army, and made Hindenburg an immortal among Junkers. Among East Prussia's lakes Hindenburg trapped the Russians, cut them to pieces...
Your elevating effusion on Chaplain Hoffmann (TIME, June 19) strikes up paeans of praise within the hearts of all the doughboys of the 133rd Infantry, with whom he served...
...Hoffmann was a ist lieutenant in our outfit. During the flaming fight for Fondouk Pass, the Division chaplain came down, offered Hoffmann the post of assistant Division chaplain. This would bring him a step-up in rank, and there wasn't so much ducking German 88s. Father Hoffmann's rejoinder was that he was interested not a whit in rank, that his place was with the boys of the ist Battalion. He stayed with us. Wherever the going was toughest on the front line, you'd see Hoffmann strolling along with a shovel. With this...
...Were Hoffmann in this vicinity, here's one Methodist who'd join his parish...