Word: hoffmans
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...revised book and a slightly altered cast of Olympians, including a seminude Venus who really earns her apple. The melodic champagne of its original score has been spiked (by Composer Erich Korngold) with heady draughts from a dozen other Offenbach operettas, including the Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman. Its Helen is sung by chestnut-haired Czech . Soprano Jarmila Novotna, one of the few opera stars who can fill the eye as well...
...Form the Battalion" will start its career tomorrow morning when the new stripers will be announced. Just between us, let's speculate on Rehurek for Battalion Commander; Hoffman for Sub-Batt Commander, Bryan for Company 3 "Hep-ster," Wanvig to take over for Company 4, with Bergen and Harty for Company 3 Platoon Leaders, and Stallard and Moss for Company...
Last week, with New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning, Dr. Ray co-officiated at his own daughter's wartime wedding. But there was nothing hasty about it. Pretty, popular Kathryna Hoffman Ray, 19, whose mother was a Manhattan socialite, was a childhood friend of her 27-year-old Army Air Forces lieutenant groom, Courtlandt Nicoll, Manhattan socialite whose family attends the Little Church. Among the bride's wedding presents was her father's latest book, dedicated to her: Marriage Is a Serious Business (Whittlesey House; $2). It is full of the rector's warmly...
News of the Nation by Sylvan Hoffman and C. Hartley Grattan (Garden City; $3.49) might turn out to be a revolution in text-teaching. It is almost certain to be a huge favorite of parlor readers and guessing-gamesters. It consists of 41 four-page tabloid editions which bring vivid immediacy to events from Columbus' discovery through Pearl Harbor...
...idea of the history came to husky-voiced, 52-year-old Sylvan Hoffman, Manhattan business magazines publisher (Shipping Management, American Roofer, Beach and Pool, Black Fox Magazine}, when he saw a parade of historic headlines in the New York Times 's 90th anniversary edition in 1941. Onetime Texas reporter, not a college graduate, Hoffman tried his idea on some 20 educators and historians, found them sympathetic, then found in C. (for Clinton) Hartley Grattan an enthusiastic collaborator. Author Grattan (The Deadly Parallel, Australia's Foreign Policy, etc.) once called the usual written history "academic mythology . . . because...