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...There are magazines exclusively devoted to the raising of cattle, dogs and flowers, but none to the most important work in the world-raising children." With this observation, in 1926, a 30-year-old Manhattan bachelor launched Children-the Magazine for Parents. For his monthly, Publisher George J. Hecht,who combed the birth statistics for his mailing list, set a circulation of 100,000 as his wildest dream. It soon came true-and then some...
Last week Publisher Hecht, now 54, and the father of two teen-age children himself, sent a proud notice to his advertisers: Parents (the name of the magazine since 1929) was boosting its circulation guarantee another 50,000, to 1,250,000. Hecht, who now publishes five other successful magazines, also sent a new journalistic offspring out into the world. He put on sale 200,000 copies of The Children's Digest, a gay-colored pocket-sized monthly that was a frank imitation of the Reader's Digest. Children's Digest will reprint the best stories, comics...
Tickets for a season of symphony concerts can run to real money. In Washing ton, D.C. last week, the National Symphony Orchestra announced a scheme for making the tariff ($67 top for the 26-concert season) easier to take. Through the cooperation of Washington's Hecht Co. department store, music lovers could order series tickets on their charge accounts, pay the piper when they settled for their millinery and haberdashery...
...quick succession he got fat parts in Maxwell Anderson's short-lived Truckline Cafe, Katharine Cornell's production of Candida and Ben Hecht's A Flag Is Born. In 1947, he found himself an overnight Broadway sensation as the brutish lout of a husband in A Streetcar Named Desire. He is still not certain that he fully "succeeded in some aspects of the part," in spite of the fact that one critic called him "our theater's most memorable young actor at his most memorable...
Electees are: Ruth Ahara, Biochemical Sciences; Mary Grimley, English; Erica Hecht, English; Ann Howe, English; Mary Lyon, English; Mrs. Berna Osnos, Classics; Rosalind Rudy, Romance Languages and Literatures; Dorit Selig, English; Alice Sizer, Romance Languages and Literature; and Mrs. Barbara Snelling, Philosophy...