No, never a Hecht fan -- not for any particular reason, just never got into him. But I do love The Front Page.
The way he described the real-life story that later became the basis for The Front Page was really gripping, as was the time he was a reporter in Berlin, watching mass executions by the Stahlhelm during the failed Spartacus uprising.
His problem was he kept retelling the same stories over again, and was obsessive. Hard to believe his most lasting contribution to pop culture was his rewrite of the Gone With the Wind screenplay.