Word: hecht
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Joyce, who-Antheil remembered-was always asking her husband, "why he didn't write sensible books . . . why he didn't become a banker . . . why he got egg on the bedspread." Back in the U.S. in the '30s, he wrote film scores (for Ben Hecht, Cecil B. DeMille), abruptly stopped writing music altogether, later explained: "I felt that I was wrong or the world was wrong, and I decided to find out." The process of discovery was oblique. Widely able, he wrote articles for Esquire on endocrinology, a daily advice-to-the-lovelorn column for the Chicago...
Kaleidoscope (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Arthur Kennedy as a newsman turned phony evangelist, in Ben Hecht's play The Third Commandment...
Author Ben Hecht, newly mellowed into the meek Wallace of TV interviewing, surrendered to impulse last week. In place of chatting with his usual guest, Hecht wrote a way-gone whimsy. The Three Echoes on a Cloud-a bull session on world problems between Helen of Troy, Empress Josephine and Joe Stalin, perched on adjacent clouds in limbo. Sample thought: "We'll divide this into East Cloudia and West Cloudia." Hecht himself played Stalin in full Red uniform with all the passion of a snowman in Siberia. Next week: Hecht as Casanova...
...Jones & Laughlin stock that Manhattan's Harry Schweitzer bought in 1955 at 38¾ is up to 60¾. His Continental Steel has gone from 33⅜ to 57¼, his Hecht Co. from 29¾ to 42⅝. All in all, the 895 shares in the Schweitzer portfolio were worth $21,000 and represented a handsome $12,000 profit, not to mention Harry's $1,600 savings accounts chunked together from dividends...
...merger joins two of the nation's oldest store chains. Hecht was founded as a furniture store in east Baltimore in 1857 by Immigrant Peddler Samuel Hecht, four of whose five sons later entered the business (present Chairman Hecht is a grandson). May Co. got its start in 1878 in Leadville. Colo., a mining boom town where David May, a 26-year-old German immigrant, founded a clothing store. David May spread his stores through the Midwest, and his son Morton J. May, Buster May's father and the chairman of May Co., expanded the chain coast...