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    Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was a syndicated American newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator. Originally a vaudeville...
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  • Columnist Walter Winchell had been a mainstay on the early years of ABC television with a simulcast of his 15-minute weekly time radio show until he left...
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  • The Walter Winchell File is a television crime drama series that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York City Police Department...
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  • gained national notoriety by taking on the powerful newspaper columnist Walter Winchell in a series of scathing magazine articles, collected in book form in...
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  • His Life and Times by Herman Klurfeld. It stars Stanley Tucci as Walter Winchell, with Glenne Headly, Paul Giamatti, Xander Berkeley, Kevin Tighe, and...
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  • ramifications or consequences. The terse narration by gossip columnist Walter Winchell, in his distinctive New York accent, was a stylistic hallmark of the...
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    friend, the entertainment and gossip columnist Walter Winchell, in 1930. In September 1930, Winchell called the Stork Club "New York's New Yorkiest place...
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  • include: Rhyming slang for nix. Part of the jargon used by soda jerks. Walter Winchell wrote about this in 1933, in his syndicated On Broadway column. In...
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    read, "The Song Is Ended." Newspaper columnist and radio reporter Walter Winchell said: He was the first to entertain troops in World War Two, contracted...
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    her right to a place in the big-time spotlight." In 1934, columnist Walter Winchell wrote about her performance in a night club: "Una Villon's torso shifting...
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