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Prelude to the 40th National Baby Parade at Asbury Park, N.J. next week was an angry, flaying editorial in Parents' Magazine. On orders of Publisher George Joseph Hecht, Editor Clara Savage Littledale berated the promoters: "Have you seen the hundreds of children who wait for hours in the broiling sun dressed in fantastic, uncomfortable costumes in order to march more hours in the heat before thousands of adults who should be more humane than to come to see them? Many of the children are very tiny things, the younger the better because the 'cuter' in the eyes...
...editorial in no way daunted the promoters of the Asbury Park baby display. The parades have been held longer than Mr. Hecht (35) and exactly as long as Miss Littledale (40) have lived. Commented Parade Director Arthur Cottrell last week: "As far as the city is concerned the parade is primarily a publicity stunt...
...CHAMPION FROM FAR AWAY- Ben Hecht-Covici, Friede ($2.50). Once considered a radical, Ben Hecht has now been made safe for readers of the Saturday Evening Post. These 13 short stories are the kind any editor of a successful fiction magazine would print, but they would not stand a chance of being accepted by the kind of agitated left-wingers Hecht played with in his youth...
...Author. In the days when Chicago was having a literary renaissance Ben Hecht was one of the better-known in a group that included Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters. Called variously iconoclast, intellectual mountebank, "in-sincere fiddler," "Pagliacci of the Fire Escape," Hecht was famed for his conversation; "his subtle innuendoes, his philosophical observations, his penetrating irony, his vehement indignation, his gentle persuasiveness, his dubious facts." Once a collaborator with Maxwell Bodenheim, Hecht soon quarreled with him: the quarrel is still going on.* Mustachioed, with rumpled hair, pouchy eyes, Ben Hecht looks like what...
...Hecht's A Jew in Love (TIME, Jan. 26) was said to represent Bodenheim; Bodenheim's Duke Herring is known to be an attack on Hecht...