Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Wawasee, Indiana, at the Indiana Federation of Clubs Convention, alert Paul Gray Hoffman, president of Studebaker Corp.. last week spoke his mind on patriotism, and spoke it well...
...Streets of Paris, at the Fair, is half the size it was on Broadway, and on the whole a livelier show. Unhappily missing are Dazed Comedian Bobby Clark, "Think a Drink" Hoffman with his magic bar tending, and Carmen Miranda with her tropical lure. But missing also are half a dozen numbers that slowed up the show, while Abbott & Costello are crazier and better than ever. New to the show is Gypsy Rose Lee, with her famous absent-minded striptease. If it doesn't make up for Miranda, it keeps anyone in the audience-temporarily at least-from thinking...
...Republican ticket, State Senator Robert Hendrickson, with the lukewarm backing of a Clean Government bloc, is running for Governor against bouncing, bumptious ex-Governor Harold Hoffman, one of the minor phenomena of Jersey politics. Reviled, threatened with impeachment, pronounced politically dead after his meddling with the Hauptmann case, bullocky Mr. Hoffman is friskier than ever. He counters the charge that he is a Hague Republican with the retort: "I like Hague as much as Haig & Haig. I take both of them when I want them but neither is my master." Most discouraging of all to Pastor Clee and the Clean...
When Desmond Hall left Mademoiselle in 1937, Betsy Blackwell became editor-in-chief. Her managing editor is 28-year-old Johanna Ellen Hoffman,* whose qualifications, besides a knowledge of English, French and German, a little Turkish, and a little Arabian, include experience on McGraw-Hill's American Machinist...
...nice easy bounce on the Jimmy Lunceford style. Good swing (and for that matter, good dance music) should never be strained and pushed in the "killer" style. Relaxed rhythm is imperative to any kind of good jazz--and Donahue has it. Junie Mays (piano--also some excellent arrangements), Bill Hoffman (bass) and Charlie Carroll on drums do a sweet job besides furnishing the "flash" solos that any band needs these days to satisfy the customers. Stewie McKay, who used to dish out hot tenor, also occasional oinks on the bassoon for Red Norvo, is dispensing for Donahue...