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Show I HE HIT THE ROAD TO WRITE A NOVEL Hoffmann Is First to Spin Yarn Around Share-Expense Share-Expense Tour. Thousands more every year are traveling across the country on share-the-eipense automobile tours. Little bands of people who never saw one another before are thrown -v SI RICHARD HOFFMANN Into the most Intimate company, trusting their Htm and property to a man they never knew before starting start-ing their journeys. Richard Hoffmann was the first to see the splendid plot possibilities In this new mode of travel. To gather material he embarked In one of these cars with very little money, but an observing eye. The result was "Watch the Curves," as hilarious and exciting a tale as you'll ever read, which appears serially In the columns col-umns of this newspaper. It strikes a new high In American fiction. Hoffmann, also author of "The Prodigal Duke," was born In New York In 1901, and educated at Law-rencevllle, Law-rencevllle, Williams and Oxford. A yachting amateur, he has sailed .In the Queen's Cup race to Spain and the Fastnet races In England. He has traveled widely through Europe. He writes with a fresh, youthful pen, as yon will see In "Watch the Curves." Follow every installment. |