THE CHAMPION FROM FAR AWAY Ben HechtCovici, Friede ($2.50). Once considered a radical, Ben Hecht has now been made safe for readers of the Saturday Evening Post. These 13 short stories are the kind any editor of a successful fiction magazine would print, but they would not stand a chance of being accepted by the kind of agitated left-wingers Hecht played with in his youth.
Some of them: A Herculean Russian oaf starves his way to the U. S., falls into the clutches of a crooked wrestling manager, tastes glory briefly.
A horrible...
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