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Before last week's tournament, Pancho had played in three spring tune-ups: he won the coveted old Brooklyn champion ship (defeating onetime Czech Davis Cup per Ladislav Hecht in the final) ; reached the semi-finals (where he took two sets from onetime Wimbledon Champion Sid ney Wood) of the Orange (N.J.) Invitation Tournament...
Parade's prospectus promises an editorial budget of $100,000 a month. Among its promised "43 Camera Men, 137 Brilliant Reporters," the eight identified are all present /"Mites: Ben Robertson Jr., Kenneth Crawford, Ben Hecht...
Last week when Frank Carson, 60, died, Playwright Charles MacArthur (coauthor with Ben Hecht of The Front Page} declared: "He was the newspaperman's dream of a city editor-a hatchet man with a heart of gold...
Last week Young America was offered a new eye-compelling antidote to the comic books-a 64-page, bi-monthly called True Comics (10?60? a year). The publisher was Parents' Magazine, headed by able George J. Hecht. Advisory board included Historian David S. Muzzey, George Gallup (Gallup Poll), Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney. The idea: to fight fire with fire...
...role in "Time of Your Life." The plot revolves around an attempt to exploit the exploiters by winning from the runners of a dishonest poker game enough to keep an embezzling clerk from committing suicide. Though he let things slow down a bit too much in spots. Director Ben Hecht has here found the ideal substitute for standard boy meets girl second feature-a simple drama with simple characters, skillfully cast and superbly photographed...