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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Munich denazification court, Photographer Heinrich Hoffman, who brought Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun together, testified that the Fiihrer's relations with Eva were platonic to the end. Said Hoffman: "Eva never was alone when she met Herr Hitler in the evening. In this respect, Herr Hitler was very infantile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Native Customs | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...succeed the late A. P. Giannini on the 25-member board of directors of his Bank of America, the directors last week picked slim, dark-eyed, olive-skinned Mrs. Claire Giannini Hoffman, 44, A.P.'s only daughter, longtime confidante and an executor of his $480,000 estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: A. P.'s Daughter | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Claire kept right on helping her father after her marriage in 1930 to blond Clifford ("Biff") Hoffman, Stanford fullback and captain (1928). She also became a general (inactive) partner with a sizable interest in Biff's brokerage firm, and the company got its share of Bank of America business. But Claire Hoffman never took a public part in her father's bank or her husband's business; she has spent much of her quiet life riding, playing golf (in the 90s) and helping the Y.W.C.A. Said brother L.M.: "She's a good businesswoman ... a hardheaded person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: A. P.'s Daughter | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...Hoffman, controlling his temper, replied, "That is an absolute falsehood." He did not know the man "from Adam's off ox ... I did not offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hot Words | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...After one year at the University of Chicago, Hoffman quit to sell automobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ready for Discontent | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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