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...Hecht, "Pagliacci of the Fire Escape," is that rare type, a bohemian who made good on Broadway. Manhattan-born (1894), he staked his first claims to fame in Chicago, whither, after spurning college and joining a road-show as an acrobat, he went intending to be a violinist, turned newshawk instead. A vehement, ironic and imaginative talker, a writer of the generously promissory sort, he was taken seriously enough by the longhaired to be printed in Margaret Anderson's late Little Review. A collaborator of parts, he wrote several plays with Maxwell Bodenheim, then quarrelled with him resoundingly...
Asked by a newshawk to give his impressions of Mrs. Eaton, 38, Advisory Master Grosman said: "She had the look of a tiger cat." Said her attorney: "She was so shocked, so stunned . . . that she couldn't even talk...
...Tapps' family physician examined the girl, who thrice had had pneumonia. He found her pulse normal, her reflexes satisfactory, declared she was in a state of autohypnosis, responding only to religious stimuli. Thus when the Full Salvationists sang Have Thine Own Way, Lord, a newshawk took Shirley's pulse, found it increased from 93 to 103. And Shirley smiled dreamily for a cameraman when she was asked, "Shirley, do you love Jesus?", by her friend Elmer Wood...
Martin Mooney is a lean, hardboiled newshawk who likes dice and drink, prides himself on his intimacy with big-shot thugs. He says he first struck up his criminal acquaintanceship while serving 15 jail terms for nonpayment of alimony. Last week he was on his way back to jail, this time as martyr to an oldtime Press tradition...
...Chicago Tribune's financial department is popping with onetime police and political reporters. A onetime police reporter himself, Financial Editor Howard Wood believes that it is easier to turn a good newshawk into an economist than a good economist into a newshawk...