Word: hecht
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such revues as Ritz Revue, Almanac, Earl Carroll's Vanities. Then five years ago Jimmy Savo dropped out of sight. Suddenly last year he popped up again. Almost every month his squinty eyes, bangs and button nose could be found in some glossy smart-chart because Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur were featuring him in a much-publicized cinema-which has yet to be released. That was the signal for Manhattan literati and humorists to "discover" in Jimmy Savo a new Charlie Chaplin. Even if, as critics unanimously predicted, Parade proves to be theatrical medicine too bitter for bourgeois taste...
...Marco Hecht, one of the best intercollegiate players in the East, is Penn's number one man. The match between Hecht and Captain Frank Jones will almost certainly go to three sets. Benny Friedman, of New York, who was outstanding last year as a Freshman, plays number two for the visitors. Fred Whit-beck, who was in excellent form yesterday afternoon, will have quite a fight to win from Friedman...
Last week appeared a new kind of publication for youngsters, The Boys' & Girls' Newspaper, a weekly 16-page tabloid to sell for 7?. Boys' & Girls' Newspaper is the latest venture of George J. Hecht, publisher of thumpingly successful Parents' Magazine. From his 300,000 readers of Parents', smart Publisher Hecht got 10,000 charter subscribers for his newspaper in advance, guarantees advertisers a circulation of 100,000. Each "charter subscriber" ($3 a year) gets also a badge and a fancy certificate testifying that he is "forward-looking...
...Alabama and Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina; Governors Talmadge of Georgia and Sholtz of Florida; Senators Robinson of Arkansas and Harrison of Mississippi, who after a four-hour conference jointly declared against the Bonus, for a balanced "normal" budget, with no new taxes next year; President Rudolf Hecht of the American Bankers' Association (see p. 53) who spoke enthusiastically of "co-operation between Government and business," said: "I told the President I didn't think it would be long before he had a touchdown and kicked the goal to recovery...
...brother, brought more utility men from Shreveport, La. Most of the guests were already settled before Owen D. Young and Charles Gates Dawes arrived. They were met at the Hot Springs station by Mr. Couch, his close friend, Arkansas' Senator Joseph T. Robinson, and President Rudolf S. Hecht of the American Bankers' Association...