Word: vinegarish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ben Hecht, 70, playwright and screenwriter, a onetime Chicago newsman who, with the late Charles MacArthur, immortalized the seedy Galahads of Cook County pressrooms with his rowdy 1928 valentine, The Front Page, thereafter indulged his bent for vinegarish sentiment in maudlin novels and Zionist pamphleteering, but plied a true trade as one of Hollywood's most highly paid ($5,000 a week, even in the 1930s) and accomplished script doctors, turning out dozens of literate originals, such as The Scoundrel (also with MacArthur) and Crime Without Passion, adaptations ranging from Wuthering Heights to A Farewell to Arms...
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