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...Hoffman is a mild-mannered, mildly good-looking, nonsmoking, teetotaling gentleman of medium size, whose most distinctive feature is a pair of startlingly blue eyes. He is a friendly family man with a bustling, buxom wife, five sons-all in uniform today-and two daughters. He works in South Bend, Ind. and spends his meager spare time at home-in the winter in a "mildly exclusive" part of South Bend; in the summer at unpretentious Lakeside, on Lake Michigan...
...these and other less spectacular sales methods, Paul Hoffman owned Studebaker's Los Angeles outlet by 1919. When Studebaker President Albert Russell Erskine persuaded him to move to South Bend as vice president in charge of sales in 1925, the Paul G. Hoffman Co. was doing $7,000,000 worth of business a year and Hoffman had made his million...
...Poltava falls to the Red Army from Kharkov, the maiden's soldier will threat en Kiev and all the German forces in the Crimea and the Donets bend...
...woman began to weep. "Her name is Miss Rooney," said a friend. "She always cries." And whenever she cried a woman from South Bend, Ind., invariably followed. Soon scores of weepers had been touched off, were brusquely ordered to restrain themselves until a more critical moment. Once, at dinner, "Mrs. Dilling suddenly started to sing a mildly ribald song about a young lady and her fiance. Later she stuck her thumb into the air, 'snatched' at [it] with her left hand and made it 'disappear.' She laughed hysterically while she pinched her left...
...Rocke feller Jr. added $2½ million of properties to his Manhattan real-estate holdings last week. Among his new tenants adjoining handsome Rockefeller Center were three bars (one a milk bar), two five-chair bar bershops, a used-jewelry shop, a corse-tiere, a secondhand bookstore. Seller; Beatrice Bend Berle, wife of Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (Mrs. Berle is now a practicing physician in Washington, D.C.) This was the biggest Manhattan realty transaction in seven years. But it had special significance: the latest Rockefeller acquisitions (at three Sixth Avenue corners-two at 48th Street...