Word: hecht
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Front Page, scored a string of courtroom beats as a City Press legman by holding a stethoscope to the paper-thin walls of Chicago jury rooms. He got the eavesdropped verdicts to his city desk before the foreman handed them to the judge. Playwright Charles MacArthur, who with Ben Hecht wrote The Front Page, also did his stint on City Press...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Hecht & MacArthur's Crime Without Passion, with Claude Rains and Margo...
...Hecht, who from a safe distance has long and loudly egged on Jewish terrorists, also made a statement. Said he: "[Bernadotte] was an ass not worthy of so fine a death...
...Orleans - Pressure of the swiftly moving world crisis has brought about a postponement of the international forum, "The Future of Freedom," which was to be held in New Orleans April 14-17. The announcement was made jointly by Rudolf Hecht, chairman of the New Orleans Committee, and James A. Linen, publisher of TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine, co-sponsors of the Forum...
...Hecht added, "At a time when the future of freedom is being decided by the swift march of events elsewhere in the world, it would not be appropriate to conduct a forum such as this. We feel sure everyone will recognize that a crisis is near at hand...