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Article: The return of Ben Hecht; Artist's works enjoy revival.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- April 20, 2004
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Byline: Rafael Medoff, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
This week marks 40 years since the death of Ben Hecht, the playwright, Hollywood screenwriter and controversial political activist who struck the Jewish world like a hurricane during the 1940s.
Hecht's name has been back in the news recently, thanks to the revival of two of his most famous plays and a spate of fresh scholarly interest in his 1940s political activism, including the publication of FBI memos wrongly accusing him of being a Communist.
Hecht, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, first rose to fame as a no-holds-barred journalist in Chicago. He went on to coauthor the Pulitzer ...