Word: hecht
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...catalogues for two years, has run up enough sales to make art a permanent Sears feature. E. J. Korvette Inc., the East's most energetic discounter, is about to try an art gallery in one of its Long Island stores, and such department stores as Washington's Hecht Co., Detroit's J. L. Hudson and The May Co. of Los Angeles are joining the ranks of big retailers that now sell original art. Many of them already enable the impulse shopper to buy art with his charge card...
GEORGE J. HECHT President International Federation of the Periodic Press New York City...
Chips & Splints. This year's casualties beat all. First there was Mary Hecht's Sadair, which won more money ($498,217) last year than any two-year-old in history; two months ago in Florida, Sadair cracked a bone in his foot. Then there was Bold Lad, brightest star in Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps's Wheatley Stable, the top money-winning stable in the U.S. ($1,073,572 in 1964). A son of Bold Ruler, "the fastest horse in the world up to nine furlongs," Bold Lad seemed like a chip off the old block when...
Died. Ben Hecht, 70, playwright and screenwriter, a onetime Chicago newsman who, with the late Charles MacArthur, immortalized the seedy Galahads of Cook County pressrooms with his rowdy 1928 valentine, The Front Page, thereafter indulged his bent for vinegarish sentiment in maudlin novels and Zionist pamphleteering, but plied a true trade as one of Hollywood's most highly paid ($5,000 a week, even in the 1930s) and accomplished script doctors, turning out dozens of literate originals, such as The Scoundrel (also with MacArthur) and Crime Without Passion, adaptations ranging from Wuthering Heights to A Farewell to Arms...
...other Scholars are: Mrs. Beatrice Lauter of Geneva, N.Y., Mrs. Hazel Morrison and Mrs. Mary Sadovnikoff of Providence, R.I., Miss Denise Levertov of New York City. Miss Ilse Hecht of Berlin, and Mrs. Cana Maeda and Miss Michiko Inukal of Tokyo...