New Britain herald., 1926-04-12
MIR. AND MRS. CHARLEY HOFF
CRY LEON M, SILER) (NEA Service Writer)

New York, April 12.--This Char Icy Hoff, the world champion pole vaulter--tho "super-athl"tc," they're calling him
 This Charley Hoff, the writer and cartoonist, the sculptor, the boxer the philosopher. tho Charlestoner the son law of one of Norway'a foremost industrial monarchs--
 This Charley Hoff the polished gentleman, well dressed as the Prince of Wale1--
 There's q healthy lift in th.o Charley Hoff for the stock of Nor dic supremacy" New York is about to conclude. And this after but the briefest of acquaintanccShip with his 1.-the six feet and lthnf an inch, his agile l47 pounds and his 2% Norwegian summers.
 He's Popular Fellow
 If Mayor Jimmy Walker fades into second place in New Works percentage columa Of personal popularitit1 somn time soon, Charley l1or will be the answer. It's passing strange, too, in a way. For when Charley Hoft landed on American shores some months back, he was done up in package Of temperament as artistic as that of q prima donna.
 Use your brain, not your hraTn, If you want 10 break athletic rcrords.' he advises.
 It's art to Hoif when he soarG over n pole vauting bar at with!h whispering distance of II fret "lIitching the polc-vaultng record to the stars" an admiring sport scribe calls it.
 It's art when hc does almost 24 feet in q running broad jump. Irs art when ho tlashcS away at : tho starters gun for G0yard dash, 1 or when he clears q row of hurdles.
 And ifs back to the art ot car tooning and literary endeayor h" goes when his athletic competitions : are over--with bit of highly ar tistic Ch2rlostoning or tangoing sandwichcd in, perhaps. Oslo, Norway, is his home. Al ] iii he was a Spindling lad of the near invalid type. SCohcd at Idea
 And at college years later hs turned thumbs down at first when q i coach suggested there might be a pole-vau}ter's "makmgs" in his spart franc,
 q don't want 10 be q pole vaul;"r," Charley responded. But Inc coach was persistent. And the fame which showers on Holf these days is his rccompcnDc, Hof went 10 Paris llSt year. There, at an embassy party, he met shy and winsome Teddy Aubnrt, daughter ot the very wealthy Dr. AxrI Auberr, director Of leading Oslo industries,
 They were married last Christmas day and started the noxt morning for America,
 My ambition? l want 10 run a newspaper" informs Charley. "A newspaper about sport and art. They're the samo. you know, if you look at sport The right way"
 To serve this ambition. Hoff took a course in Journalism during his ats ;hrer years in college
 Soon Charley is going on an auto tour 10 the Pacific coast, stopping for various athletic meets on route
 IIo visited Doug Fairbanks and Mary Pickford for two hours in x W York the other day, anu Doug gave nim letters Of introduction 10 Charlie Chaplin and all tho other PacinC coast notahles-lettrrS which pro, nouncrd Hoff the greatest athlete a1l finest fellow" Doug ever ha, mot.
 But he wants 10 finish his book or philosophy bofor" h. goes.
 And I want to sor your Sin, Sing" says Charley, I'm interest od in learning jus, how the con vicIs are treated there"
 This Charley Hoff, tho sociologis --cagrr genial. handsome a. they get 10 be
 What a bear cat Of q movie sta ho'6 apt 10 make.
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