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Double Take. In Los Angeles, burglars broke into the offices of the Hecht-Lancaster Motion Picture Producing Co., made off with $500 in stage money...
Radio Tributes (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). The life of Carl Sandburg, with Dave Garroway, Adlai Stevenson, Ben Hecht. Charles MacArthur...
...President promptly sent his personal endorsement of the plan to the board's chairman, Eric Johnston. Even before this, the City of New Orleans had become interested in the board's idea. Rudolf S. Hecht, on behalf of International House, and a group of the city's private business organizations undertook the job of sponsoring just such a conference...
Later I was approached by Mr. Hecht with the proposal that TIME act as co-sponsor of the conference. I was pleased to accept the invitation. We have long had an interest in Latin American affairs; the Latin American edition of TIME, started in 1941, was the first of our four international editions. Immediately, Edgar R. Baker, managing director of the international editions, set to work with Mr. Hecht organizing the meeting. It was decided to call the meeting the Inter-American Investment Conference and schedule it for four days in New Orleans early in March...
Vera Cruz (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists), billed as "The Battle of the Giants," is apparently an attempt to decide the heavyweight championship of Hollywood. In one corner stands Burt Lancaster, congenital desperado, and in the other Gary Cooper, Southern gentle man dispossessed by the Civil War. The rough stuff gets under way somewhere south of the border, around 1866. Bullets squeal, gun butts crunch, death screams gurgle, bombs go bam! And when a man is all tuckered out, some señorita is like as not to come slinking up with a rose in her teeth and a pigsticker...