Word: hofmans
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This is the world of French Cartoonist Jean Effel (concocted from the initials of his real name, François Lejeune), whose whimsies about the first two chapters of Genesis have made bestselling booklet after booklet in France. He also collaborated with Czech Movie Director Eduard Hofman to make a 90-minute feature film out of the series. The result, called The Creation of the World, took top prize for animated cartoons at this year's Venice Festival, and won the Silver Gondola for excellence awarded for educational and cultural films...
...varsity's one run came in the ninth inning. Left fielder Dick Hofman lod of with a long single to center and continued on to second when the ball took a bad hop by the center fielder. First baseman John Simourian then drove a ground ball through the second baseman's legs, scorin Hoffman...
Douglas Fairbanks fans may enjoy seeing Cornel Wilde, as D'Artagnan Jr., spearing soldiers by the dozen and merrily rolling them down stairwells, but for most others At Swords Point will be a somewhat ludicrous spectacle. Walter Ferris and Joseph Hofman have concocted a swashbuckling sequel to Dumas' The Three Musketeers that completely lacks the master's finesse and sense of suspense...
...power. In a thoroughgoing revision of history, the original Musketeers' children save the Queen from her precarious position, rescue the Sun King from a monestery, and save his sister from the clutches of a bonafide villain in the old style, the Duc de Laville. For additional merriment, Ferris and Hofman have provided that Athos, one of the original Three Musketeers, should have a daughter (Maureen O'Hara) who joins the revels at the Golden Cockerel...