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Cubs announcer Harry Caray dies after collapsing on Valentine’s Day https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/579059/ #AbbieHoffman #AcademyAwards #acquitted #Baseball #BenHecht #Chicago #ChicagoCubs #ChicagoHistory #ChicagoSeven #ChicagoCubs #corruption #Cubs #EvanLysacek #February18 #HarryCaray #MichaelMadigan #MLB #olympics #oscar #RodBlagojevich #ShaniDavis #trial #underworld #WinterOlympics
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Cubs announcer Harry Caray dies after collapsing on Valentine’s Day https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/579059/ #AbbieHoffman #AcademyAwards #acquitted #Baseball #BenHecht #Chicago #ChicagoCubs #ChicagoHistory #ChicagoSeven #ChicagoCubs #corruption #Cubs #EvanLysacek #February18 #HarryCaray #MichaelMadigan #MLB #olympics #oscar #RodBlagojevich #ShaniDavis #trial #underworld #WinterOlympics
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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
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“And the crowd of men and women shuffle up and down the aisles, up and down the streets outside. The holidays bring them all an identical gift. The holidays bring them the gift of memory.”
“Christmas Thoughts” by Ben Hecht, 1921 from American Christmas Stories edited by Connie Willis
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“We once lived in a world of toys. In a world of adventure. In a world of strange thoughts and weird imaginings. Adventure, thoughts and imaginings were toys like these. Yes, these toys have souls because we remember that they meant something, were something. What is it they meant or were? But we’ve forgotten that—almost.”…
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What an amazing writer, what an amazing life —Ben Hecht
(here in 1945), Born February 28, 1894, New York City,
Died April 18, 1964 (aged 70)
Occupation Screenwriter, director, producer,novelist, playwright, journalist
Style Comedy, newspapers, gangster
Spouse(s) Marie Armstrong (m. 1915; divorced), Rose Caylor (m. 1926)#twentiethcentury #screenwriter #newspaperman #chicago #losangeles #americanhistory #palestine #israel #benhecht #holocaust