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"Samuel Hof (October 24, 1870, Boscobel, Wisconsin – March 10, 1937, Washington, D.C.) was an officer in the United States Army during World War I. He was 13th Chief of Ordnance for the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps. Biography Samuel Hof was born on October 24, 1870 in Boscobel, Wisconsin, and graduated from West Point in 1894. Some of his classmates also became general officers, including Frank Parker, Hamilton S. Hawkins III, George H. Estes, John W. Joyes, Ora E. Hunt, Pegram Whitworth, Briant H. Wells, John F. Preston, Francis L. Parker, Paul B. Malone and George Vidmer. He was originally commissioned a second lieutenant of cavalry in 1894, but he was later transferred to the Ordnance Corps. For his service as a commanding officer of the Frankford Arsenal, he was later awarded with the Distinguished Service Medal. He was Chief of Ordnance from 1930 to 1934. His four-year term came at the height of the Depression resulting in a significant decrease in funding for the Ordnance Department. Despite these difficulties, there was a general advance in the design and manufacturing of ordnance materiel. He made a number of recommendations for improved efficiencies in the department's supply responsibilities. Hof retired from the Army in 1934 and died on March 10, 1937 in Washington, D.C. aged 66. He is buried together with his wife Alice Mayo Hof (1873–1962) at West Point Cemetery. Distinguished Service Medal citation His award citation reads: The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Colonel (Ordnance Corps) Samuel Hof, United States Army, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in positions of great responsibility first as commanding officer, Frankford Arsenal from March 1918 to March 1919, where, by his indefatigable energy, outstanding administrative ability, and thorough technical knowledge, he brought to a successful production, basic tracer, incendiary, and armor-piercing small-arms ammunition, and supplied substantially all that was used by our troops; later as acting chairman of the ordnance claims board, where, by his energy, tact and business ability, he secured the settlement of outstanding obligations and later as chief of field service, ordnance department, where he perfected the organization and controlled the disposition of vast quantities of materials and plants left over from the war. References Category:1870 births Category:1937 deaths Category:People from Boscobel, Wisconsin Category:United States Army generals Category:United States Military Academy alumni Category:United States Army Command and General Staff College alumni Category:United States Army War College alumni Category:American military personnel of the Spanish–American War Category:American military personnel of World War I Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army) Category:Burials at West Point Cemetery "
"Arild Rebne (born 29 November 1972) is a retired Norwegian football midfielder. He played for Vind IL and SK Gjøvik-Lyn before joining Hamarkameratene. He made his Norwegian Premier League debut on 23 May 1994, and got 49 league games in total. He then left for Gjøvik-Lyn, but in 1998 he moved to Raufoss IL. Ahead of the 2005 season he went to Gjøvik-Lyn for a new period. He also coached the team in 2008. References Category:Norwegian footballers Category:Hamarkameratene players Category:Raufoss IL players Category:Sportspeople from Gjøvik Category:1972 births Category:Living people Category:Eliteserien players Category:Association football midfielders "
"Baby Boy Warren (August 13, 1919 – July 1, 1977) was an American blues singer and guitarist who was a leading figure on the Detroit blues scene in the 1950s. Early life He was born Robert Henry Warren in Lake Providence, Louisiana, in 1919, and at the age of three months moved with his parents to Memphis, Tennessee.Harris, S. (1981). Blues Who's Who. New York: Da Capo Press. pp. 534–535. He was interested in music from an early age, and was working occasionally as a musician from around 1931, when he dropped out of school, having learned to play guitar from two of his older brothers.Russell, T.; Smith, C. (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. London: Penguin Books. p. 681. In the 1930s, he worked in W. C. Handy Park, Memphis, with Howling Wolf, Robert Jr. Lockwood and Little Buddy Doyle and he appeared on the radio show King Biscuit Time, broadcast from Helena, Arkansas, with Sonny Boy Williamson around 1941. In 1942, he moved to Detroit, where he worked for General Motors while also performing as a musician. Recordings Warren's first recording sessions were in 1949 and 1950 in Detroit, with the five resulting singles being released on a number of labels.Leadbitter, M.; Fancourt, L.; Pelletier, P. (1994). Blues Records 1943–1970, vol. 2, L–Z. London: Record Information Services. pp. 674–675. Tracks recorded at a 1954 session accompanied by Sonny Boy Williamson were released on Joe Von Battle's JVB label and by Excello Records. Further sessions the same year resulted in a single on the Blue Lake label, with Boogie Woogie Red on piano and Calvin Frazier on guitar, and a reworking of the Robert Johnson song "Stop Breakin' Down" for the Drummond label. Later career and death Warren was mostly inactive in music in the 1960s but revived his career with performances at the Detroit Blues Festival in 1971 and the Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1973 and with a tour of Europe with Boogie Woogie Red in 1972. From 1974 to 1976 he was also a featured performer, along with Willie D. Warren, with the Progressive Blues Band, a popular band that played in many of Detroit's blues venues. He suffered a fatal heart attack at his home on July 1, 1977, and was buried at Detroit Memorial Park Cemetery in Macomb County, Michigan.Detroit Memorial Park Personal information Warren was given the nickname "Baby Boy" by his older brothers when he was a child. He was one of twelve children. He married twice, in 1935 and in the early 1960s, and had seven children. On releases by Staff Records, Federal Records and Swing Time Records, he was credited as Johnny Williams. Influences Warren's chief influences were Little Buddy Doyle and Willie "61" Blackwell, especially in his approach to lyrics. He stated that another musician he particularly admired was Memphis Minnie, whom he knew in Memphis in the 1930s.Garon, P.; Garon, B. (1992). Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues. New York: Da Capo Press. pp. 4, 197. The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings described him as having brought "a hip, literate humour to the blues lyric". References External links * Illustrated Baby Boy Warren discography Category:1919 births Category:1977 deaths Category:People from Lake Providence, Louisiana Category:African- American musicians Category:American blues guitarists Category:American male guitarists Category:American blues singers Category:American street performers Category:Detroit blues musicians Category:Electric blues musicians Category:20th-century American singers Category:20th-century American guitarists Category:20th-century American male musicians "