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  1. Jun 5, 2020 · Published June 5, 2020 Updated June 8, 2020. Harry Hoffman, who as the president of Waldenbooks cemented its standing as the No. 1 bookseller in the United States in the 1980s by opening hundreds ...

  2. Dustin Hoffman. Actor: Tootsie. Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, and went to Santa Monica City College, where he dropped out after ...

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  3. Harry Leslie Morris Hoffman was born in Cressona, Pennsylvania. [1] He attended the Yale University School of Art (1893–97), studying with John Ferguson Weir. [1] [2] He was also a champion gymnast during his college years. [3] He then moved to New York, where he continued his training at the Art Students' League with Frank DuMond.

  4. May 29, 2020 · Harry Hoffman, the most powerful person in bookselling in the 1980s as the CEO of Waldenbooks, died on May 20 at age 92. Hoffman took over the 500-bookstore chain in 1979 and, when he retired in ...

  5. Nov 9, 1986 · Harry Hoffman has a ruddy face, wavy hair, a solid jaw. At 58, he seems younger. He hasn't always sold books, but he has usually sold something. He was born in Brooklyn and grew up mostly in ...

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  7. Harry Leslie Morris Hoffman (Pennsylvania, Connecticut, 1871/1874 - 1964) Harry Leslie Hoffman was an American Impressionist painter best known for his brightly colored paintings of underwater marine life. He was born in Cressona, Pennsylvania. He attended the Yale University School of Art (1893–97), studying with John Ferguson Weir.

  8. Harry Leslie Hoffman. Born March 16, 1871, Cressona, Pennsylvania. Died March 6, 1964, Old Lyme, Connecticut. In Old Lyme, summers 1902-1909; permanently, 1910-1966. Hoffman came to Old Lyme as a student, but quickly became accepted as a member of the art colony, leading the artists in fun and musical entertainment.

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