Word: hoffman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sunny afternoon last May, 61-year-old Frank Hoffman, who was working on a farm outside Hagerstown, Md., began to disinfect the barn with a high-pressure spraying hose. Suddenly the machine jammed, backfired, showered Hoffman with carbolic acid and lime. He whipped out his bandanna handkerchief, rubbed his eyes, and despite the searing pain continued working. In a few days Farmer Hoffman was stone blind...
Several weeks ago, when the infection following the burn had abated, Hoffman went to Hagerstown, and asked Dr. Paul Nelson Fleming if he would ever be able to see again. Dr. Fleming examined his eyes, discovered that the fragile, shell-like corneas were completely useless, that each lens and iris had grown together in a tangled mass. He told Hoffman that he could only experiment, but Hoffman was willing to try anything. At Washington County Hospital Dr. Fleming removed the scarred cornea from Hoffman's right eye, straightened out the lens and iris as best he could. No human...
John R. Baker, S. Bittenbender, Joseph J. Bodell, Charlton P. Boyd, Richard D. Brunel, Franklin N. Cunningham, Richard B. Fellows, John N. Fulhom Jr., Philip R. Gazechi, George A. Hayward, Maurice F. Healy Jr., William L. Healy, William L. Hires, Eugene H. Hoffman, Robert M. Jenney Frank C. Langdon, Joseph A. Locke Jr., Richard D. Mansfield, W. Marvin, Theodore E. Sharp, Samuel W. W. Shor, Harold T. Smith, William H. Taylor Jr., Ronald E. Vanelli...
Last week, 36 student seamen, first batch of more than 2,400 expected to enroll within a year, were ferried out to tiny, shuttle-shaped Hoffman Island in lower New York Bay for the first session of the new Merchant Marine Training School. Superintendent was smiling Lieut. Commander George Evans McCabe of the U. S. Coast Guard, an energetic expert in seacraft who will rate a salute from every man in the school (". . . and not with a sneer on his face, either"). Teachers will be six commissioned officers and 30 petty officers from the Coast Guard cutter service. For training...
Said she: "Isn't it lovely?" New Jersey's former Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who last year dropped a slander suit against onetime Radio Commentator Boake Carter, began a 52-week series of news broadcasts himself. Excerpt from his first broadcast: "Happiness and heartbreak, achievement and failure . . . are wrapped up in that thing, chiefly transient, which we call news...