HOFFMAN, IRVING. Caricaturist, columnist, and humorist during the 1940s and ’50s; b. New York, New York, ; d. New York, New York, .
Irving Hoffman influenced the careers of many stars and became a confidant of many of the personalities on the Rial to. Because Hoffman was born in 1909 on the anniversary of the invention of the steamboat, his parents gave him the middle name Fulton, after its inventor. He dropped out of DeWitt Clinton High School a...