Word: hecht
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town of Merino, Colo., Albert Stark rattled along with a truckload of fertilizer. Some 1,400 miles away, in San Francisco, the World Security conference was scarcely two hours old; Mutual's commentators were up to their ears in commentating, and the Blue was airing an ambitious Ben Hecht dramatization of "the little people's" hopes for the world's future...
Blue will feature "interpretive" broadcasts by Sumner Welles, newly hired as the network's "adviser on world peace," and full color reporting by Ben Hecht, Hedda Hopper, Orson Welles, and "other Hollywood personalities...
...Seven Lively Arts is oversized and overstuffed. At times the whole thing seems less like the seven lively arts (which presumably include dressmaking and sex) than like seven luxury hotels. The big names frantically jostle one another as though they were playing "Going to Jerusalem"-with Dialogue Writers Ben Hecht and Moss Hart and Song Writer Cole Porter the first to be done out of chairs...
...attractions outweighed the handicaps. The News still has prestige as a sort of "New York Times of the Midwest," largely due to its voluminous, generally excellent foreign coverage. It has a tradition of good writing sprung from such ex-Newsmen as Eugene Field. George Ade, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht. And it has a tradition of independence that reaches back to its late great founder, Melville E. Stone. A good man could restore its greatness...
Still frankly wrestling with himself, Ben Hecht declined to join a Dewey com mittee on the grounds that he was a "slightly confused follower of Mr. Roosevelt. My confusion arises out of wonder as to whether I admire Mr. Roosevelt or dislike his enemies...