A BOOK OF MIRACLESBen HechtViking ($2.75).
Whatever else Ben Hecht may be damned forand blasphemy is likely to be includedhe cannot be accused of writing A Book of Miracles for money. One of Hollywood's highest-paid writers (The Front Page, Let Freedom Ring, etc.), he forswore 15 months' salary to write it. (His movie salary is around $6,000 a week.) But for Hecht it was "fun writing what I wantwithout having Sam Goldwyn peering over my shoulder." Fun for Hecht has heretofore meant novels like Erik Dorn, Count Bruga, A Jew in Lovegaudy, swashbuckling, ranting...
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