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...Washington two big stores (Hecht Co. and Woodward & Lothrop) were charged with ceiling violations. In 21 war-plant areas, 60 landlords were haled into court for violating rent ceilings. Throughout the land, OPA brought suit to enjoin 116 meat packers from "upgrading" standard cuts of meat, warned 4,000 retailers to fix their prices or else. These were not random actions but test cases carefully picked for a showdown on whether OPA is really price boss for the duration. For OPA investigations have shown that out of 12,000 groceries and butchers 40% are ceiling violators, and that...
...Hecht story concerns a tail-coat, bought from the tailor by Charles Boyer, and passing in turn to Henry Fonda, Cesar Romero, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson, and Paul Robeson, ending up ingloriously on a scarecrow in a poor negro's corn patch. The coat brings happiness to some and serves as a jinx to others, but it travels merrily on its way, oblivious of all the trouble it is causing. The film is divided into five sequences, the first is marvelous, but by the end of the two hours, the audience is more than ready to say farewell...
...first episode should be a short play called The Marshall by Ferenc Molnar. Molnar gave Sam an option gratis. Eagle had read some 250 other short plays and stories, but as things turned out a good deal of the film is, in the strictly legal sense, original. Ben Hecht ducoed the Molnar play into the triangle. Donald Ogden Stewart and Alan Campbell whipped up the first act of Ladislaus Fodor's play Burberry into the brief burlesque. Two other Ladislauses, Vadnai and Gorog, worked up the Charles Laughton tearjerker. Samuel Hoffenstein and Henry Blankfort are responsible for the sharecropper...
Francisco ("Pancho") Segura from Ecuador turned up in U.S. tennis two years ago as a two-handed freak. By mid-1942 he looked more like a two-handed champion. Every tennis player in the country whistled last July when Segura batted his way through the strong Czecho-Slovakian, Ladislav Hecht. 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. An urchin-like figure with a pigeon-toed slouch and a dark Indian face, Segura addresses a forehand shot as if he were about to kill it with an ax, often whirls so far off the ground that he seems to be swung...
...pools, and above all in Army camps, is not only "illogical and probably serves no useful purpose but is potentially harmful." This radical reversal of medical teaching comes from three expert dermatologists (Drs. Marion Sulzberger and Rudolf Baer of New York City's Montefiore Hospital and Dr. Rudolph Hecht of the University of Illinois). It is based on their observations of the last decade, as confirmed by 88 other U.S. skin specialists...