Word: hecht
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hecht has assaulted the world as a gifted playwright (The Front Page}, maudlin novelist (A Jew in Love), bright essayist (A Guide for the Bedeviled} and cantankerous pamphleteer for Zionism...
...CHILD OF THE CENTURY (654 pp.) -Ben Hecht-Simon & Schuster...
...young Chicago newspaperman, Ben Hecht once found himself standing in a train shed awaiting the arrival of a VIP when he observed a workman lying underneath a locomotive. "His legs protruded from the thighs down. I noted that the locomotive had steam up and that its bell was ringing." Next minute "the workman's long legs were lying on the platform . . . The rest of him . . . remained between the tracks." Just then the VIP's train pulled in, so Reporter Hecht left "the bloody scene" and hurried off to his interview. "I had felt no shock at what...
From boyhood, when he lay in a Racine (Wis.) attic gobbling Shakespeare, Hecht regarded the world simply as a mint for the coining of "words" and "phrases." Most young bibliophiles "take sides" pas sionately when they read a book, regard less of whether they understand all the words, but young Hecht managed to do just the opposite. He recognized no "characters" in Shakespeare, only "words [that] seemed to hang in the air like feats of magic." He was only 16 when he landed the job of "picture chaser" on the Chicago Daily Journal. He was "sent forth each dawn...
Died. Walter C. (for Crawford) Howey, 72, onetime holy terror of Chicago journalism, immortalized as the managing editor in The Front Page (by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur), since 1930 editorial director of the Boston Hearst papers, the Record, the American, the Sunday Advertiser (total circ. 1,748,437); in Boston. In Chicago, Howey became city editor of the Tribune at 25, editor of the Hearst Her aid-Examiner ten years later. Ignoring events outside Chicago, Editor Howey concentrated on local mayhem and scandal, paid police-switchboard operators to tip him off on the latest crime, delighted in planting fake...