Word: hecht
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Rudolf S. Hecht, 70, financier, board chairman of the Mississippi Shipping Co. and of New Orleans' famed foreign-trade center, International House; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. A lifelong advocate of U.S.-Latin American relations, he engineered last year's Inter-American Investment Conference, sponsored by the city of New Orleans and TIME Inc., to persuade U.S. businessmen to invest in Latin American markets...
...Kentuckian (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists) strikes a note, pitched somewhere between a 59? moose call and a classic eclogue, that might suitably be called "Hollywood pastoral." It is raucous, but it has touches of poetry...
...months ago, at the Inter-American Investment Conference in New Orleans, Shipping Tycoon Rudolf Hecht suggested the formation of a U.S.-sponsored company to provide capital for Latin American companies by buying their securities. Last week Pennroad Corp., TIME Inc. (which publishes editions of some of its magazines in Latin America) and South American Gold & Platinum Co. announced that they are forming just such an investment company called the Interamerican Capital Corp. It will be the first big-risk capital corporation set up "for the primary purpose of making diversified, direct commitments" in Latin American business...
Homer's epic story has been greatly shortened and considerably amended by a battery of writers (Ben Hecht and Irwin Shaw plus three Italians and a Briton). But the Odyssey has been tampered with before and suffered no appreciable damage. Purists will find cause to complain in the sprucing up of Ulysses' character; he emerges less a calculating Greek warrior than an upstanding cowboy hero outfitted with chiton instead of chaps, sandals instead of saddlebags...
...Marty (Hecht and Lancaster; United Artists). "Marty," says Mrs. Pilletti to her 34-year-old son, as he moves in on the evening plate of spaghetti after a hard day in Mr. Otari's butcher shop, "why don't you go to the Stardust Ballroom [tonight]?" Marty (Ernest Borgnine) tries to look unconcerned. "Ma, when you gonna give up? You got a bachelor on your hands. I ain't never gonna get married." But his mother (Esther Minciotti) can't let well enough alone, and finally Marty bursts out bitterly, "Whatever it is that women like...