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	Walter Winchell
		Winchell was extremely popular and influential for decades in shaping public opinion, notoriously aiding and ruining the careers of many entertainers.
		Winchell began his radio broadcasts by pressing randomly on a telegraph key, a sound which created a sense of urgency and importance.
		Winchell and Magee successfully kept the secret of their nonmarriage their whole lives, but were struck by tragedy with all three of their children.
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	Radio Hall of Fame - Walter Winchell, Newscaster
		Winchell was writing a regular gossip column for the New York Daily Mirror when he made his radio debut in 1930 on CBS’s Saks on Broadway, a 15-minute feature devoted to show business news.
		Winchell’s broadcasts were fast-paced affairs, with each story delivered in a rapid-fire staccato style and punctuated with the urgent tapping of a telegraph key.
		Winchell perfected the use of slang to report stories that might have led to legal disputes, although his contract held him harmless from libelous material.
	www.radiohof.org /news/walterwinchell.html (226 words)

	The Walter Winchell Show [#1] (commentary)
		So eventually the aging Winchell quit over a confrontation with a network news executive who tried to mold it into what was needed for the new medium.
		Winchell got other chances -- a short-lived NBC variety show in which he tried to be an "Ed Sullivan" introducing the acts.
		Winchell tried a filmed show later with his pals at Desilu for whom he had narrated "The Untouchables" series.
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	Walter Winchell â“ FREE Walter Winchell Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Find Walter Winchell Research
		Walter Winchel] (born April 7, 1897, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Feb. 20, 1972, Los Angeles, Calif.) U.S. journalist and broadcaster.
		Here she compares them., POWER BROKER: In the '30s and '40s, Walter Winchell could make or break a career with his syndicated gossip column and radio show.
		The Walter Winchell of the elites: the triumph of celebrityism in high-brow America.(Dominick Dunne)
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	Walter Winchell Bio - Walter Winchell Biography - Walter Winchell Stories
		Winchell's contracts with his newspapers and radio syndicators required them to indemnify him in case he was successfully sued for slander or libel.
		Winchell's politics became more conservative after World War II because he perceived Communism to be a great menace to American society whereas many liberals did not.
		Winchell was one of the first commentators to speak out against the Fascist regimes of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
	www.tv.com /walter-winchell/person/84772/biography.html (746 words)

	Poynter Online - Winchell Meets Romenesko
		Walter Winchell was, in his time, the most powerful journalist in the world.
		Winchell could put people in jail with the help of his close friend, the closet queen J. Edgar Hoover who ran the F.B.I. as a personal preserve.
		Walter Winchell could, all by himself, make a corporation's stock rise or fall with a single sentence spoken on his Sunday night radio broadcast He could make or break a new film with a single mention in his column or on his broadcast.
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	Walter Winchell
		Walter Winchell's marker is the 8th back from the road, preceded by his wife and son.
		Walter Winchell's grave is in the Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, adjoining those of his son and wife.
		Winchell's wife moved to Arizona for her health in 1955, and bought a home at 6116 Yucca Street on the northeast side of Camelback Mountain.
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	CNN - HBO hands up 'voice of America' Walter Winchell - November 23, 1998
		Walter Winchell is one of the most famous gossip journalists of the 20th century
		Decades have passed, but as the new HBO film "Winchell" demonstrates, gossip columnist and reporter Walter Winchell's name is still remembered for the fear and respect it commanded.
		Winchell died in 1972, a broken man deprived of the power he had used and abused.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/TV/9811/23/winchell/index.html (477 words)

	Walter Winchell Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Walter Winchell developed the modern gossip column, employing a brash, sensational style to deal more intimately with the personal affairs of celebrities than other journalists had ever dared.
		Changing public taste, the decline of Broadway, and Winchell's espousal of a far-right political position all contributed to the demise of his career in the 1950s and early 1960s.
		In 1968, Winchell left New York for a lonely and reclusive life in Los Angeles and Arizona until his death from cancer in 1972.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/walter-winchell-dlb (221 words)

	walter winchell
		But Winchell also broke people, ruined careers and in the end, shifted from a supporter of FDR to an apologist for Senator McCarthy and became a namer-of-named during the Communist witch hunt.
		Winchell was at the height of his power when this film was made and the character is a heroic, if reckless, American icon.
		The patron saint of yellow journalism and gossip columns, Walter Winchell is the subject of an upcoming biographic film on HBO.
	alt.tcm.turner.com /MONTH_SPOTS/9811/winchell.htm (488 words)

	Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972) - Find A Grave Memorial
		North and South America and all the ships at sea...let's go to press!' He was born Walter Weinschel in New York City to Russian immigrants subjected to extreme poverty by a father who barely contributed to the upkeep of the family forcing him to work at an early age at the expense of an education.
		Prologue: Walter Winchell was quickly forgotten even before his death.
		In a bit of trivia for gourmets: A famous fish sandwich, 'The Walter Winchell' consisting of Sturgeon, Swiss cheese and sliced dill pickles on rye originated by the famous Reuben's Deli in New York City.
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	Walter Winchell \| St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture \| Find Articles at BNET.com
		Winchell (as he now called himself) and Greene continued to travel the country, performing their vaudeville act to surprising success.
		Walter Winchell, born into a lower-middle class Jewish family, was daring to put the private lives of the rich and famous in print.
		By 1928, Walter Winchell's column was syndicated throughout the country and the 31-year-old was already one of the most influential public figures in America.
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	Walter Winchell - Growing Up
		Walter Winchell was born on April 7, 1897.
		Walter, even as a young boy, had to bear the burden of his father's bad name.
		Walter was very sensitive to the implications that came along with poverty.
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	Granddaughter will step up to the mike for Walter Winchell \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		They found Mary Elizabeth Winchell Jones – or, as she is known today, Liz Jones – in Rancho San Diego and in a mild state of bafflement.
		June and Walter Winchell, with Walda, Liz's mother during a 1934 family vacation on Santa Catalina Island.
		Winchell died a few months shy of his 75th birthday; the only person to attend his funeral was Walda.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041102/news_lz1c2rowe.html (911 words)

	MotivationalQuotes.Com presents Walter Winchell, pundit and newspaper columnist
		Walter Winchell, pundit and newspaper columnist, is best known for his writings about Broadway and its stars.
		Walter Winchell (1897-1972), pundit and newspaper columnist, is best known for his writings about Broadway and its stars.
		Walter Winchell's grave - Greenwood Memorial Park, AZ.
	www.motivationalquotes.com /People/winchell.shtml (157 words)

	Walter Winchell St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Winchell (as he now called himself) and Greene continued to travel the country, performing their vaudeville act to surprising success.
		Walter Winchell, born into a lower-middle class Jewish family, was daring to put the private lives of the rich and famous in print.
		By 1928, Walter Winchell's column was syndicated throughout the country and the 31-year-old was already one of the most influential public figures in America.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201317 (851 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Secret Life of Walter Winchell: Livres en anglais: Lyle Stuart (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Winchell forced the doors of the secret lives of every defenseless man or woman who had the misfortune to come within his deadly range.
		Winchell were to come to judgment in a book, that book would be a cruel one.
		The Secret Life of Walter Winchell affected many lives, not the least of which was his.
	www.amazon.fr /Secret-Life-Walter-Winchell/dp/1569802513 (469 words)

	Amazon.ca: Walter Winchell: a Novel: Books: Michael Herr (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Winchell's rise to fame is described "with an unctuous regard for those with power and a mixture of schmaltz and repulsion toward the disenfranchised."
		A streamlined hybrid of novel and screenplay, Walter Winchell tells the story of the failed vaudevillian who became this country's most influential gossip columnist and "wizard of the vicarious." "Brilliant.
		Winchell spoke and wrote (Larry King's USA Today "column" is a 3d-rate parody of Winchell), and Runyon and Hemingway wrote the way this book reads.
	www.amazon.ca /Walter-Winchell-Novel-Michael-Herr/dp/0679733930 (623 words)

	The Age of Winchell
		The workaholic Winchell was first to announce big-name marriages and divorces, Hollywood romances, exploits of socialites, international playboys, debutantes, mobsters and chorus girls, plus latest reports of café society antics.
		Winchell’s eyes darted all over the restaurant and frequently he paused to talk with those he knew.
		After that period I rarely saw Walter Winchell because in 1949 I was assigned to the Times bureau in Paris and later, Frankfurt.
	www.evesmag.com /winchell.htm (1375 words)

	Walter Winchell: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
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		In newspapers columns and on the radio, he invented the gossip column.
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	Amazon.com: Walter Winchell: Michael Herr: Books
		This curious novel by the author of the much-acclaimed Dispatches attempts to render the life of fabled American journalist and ideologue Walter Winchell in a style suggestive of Winchell's very own and with a flavor of his times.
		The story of Winchell's impoverished beginnings and celebrated rise is told just as Winchell might have told it--with unctuous regard for those with power and a mixture of schmaltz and repulsion toward the disenfranchised.
		Winchell spoke and wrote (Larry King's USA Today "column" is a 3d-rate parody of Winchell), and Runyon and Hemingway wrote the way this book reads.
	www.amazon.com /Walter-Winchell-Michael-Herr/dp/0394583728 (955 words)

	CNN - Walter Winchell, ex-big shot, resurrected on the small screen - December 9, 1998
		Winchell, a man once as famous as the stars he glorified, fell from grace and faded into obscurity.
		Winchell invented a new kind of reporting, dishing the dirt on stars and socialites, mixed with plugs for his friends and shots at his enemies, all served up in his distinctive style.
		It would depend on what mood he was in." Regarding the story of Walter Winchell's rise and eventual fall, Tucci says, "I suppose it is a cautionary tale in a way.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/TV/9812/09/winchell (1066 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Walter Winchell
		Walter Winchell was born in April of 1897 in New York, New York, and during the course of his life he permanently changed what it meant to be famous.
		If Winchell had a sliver of popularity left it was quickly dashed when his hometown newspaper The New York Mirror folded a few years later.
		Walter Winchell died disgraced and forgotten in February of 1972 in Los Angeles, California.
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	Walter Winchell - NBHF
		Walter was born Walter Winschell on April 7, 1897, in New York City to Jacob Winschell and Jennie Bakst.
		Walter spent most of his early years in poverty and began working at a young age.
		When Walter Winchell died in Los Angeles on February 20, 1972, his daughter, Walda, was the only person at his graveside.
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	How Jack Paar slew Walter Winchell. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Winchell wasn't even welcome anymore at the Stork Club, his famous roost of three decades, because he'd fallen out with owner Sherman Billingsley.
		Paar was furious at Winchell for refusing to retract an item several years earlier that had alleged, falsely, that Paar was having marital difficulties.
		When the book, The Secret Life of Walter Winchell, had been published in 1953, its author, Lyle Stuart, was ostracized.
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	A Guide to the Walter Winchell Papers
		Walter Winchell (1897-1972) gained acclaim as a journalist and gossip columnist with a career spanning five decades.
		Winchell’s early career was marked by his public criticism of pro-fascists in America and strong condemnation of the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany.
		Mixed with political opinion and commentary was Winchell’s trademark entertainment news and “gossip,” where he gained a reputation as being frank and fiery.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/utcah/00507/00507-P.html (296 words)

	Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Emerging in the 1920's, Winchell created "gossip journalism," using his razor-sharp wit and self-styled "slanguage" to describe the goings on of the celebrities of the day—stars, socialites, gangsters.
		In December 1946, Walter Winchell used his tremendous influence and wide audience to take a groundbreaking step in the fight against cancer.
		Upon the death of his friend Damon Runyon, the leading storywriter and journalist, Winchell took to the airways and appealed to Mr.
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	RECREATING WALTER WINCHELL'S TELEGRAPH SETUP - TELEGRAPH & SCI INSTRUMENT MUSEUMS
		A 1950's photograph of famous newscaster Walter Winchell and his telegraph keys appears on the LEFT
		Walter Winchell used these keys to generate fast morse code which he sent as 900Hz tones as he started his broadcasts with:
		This is the photograph used to advertise the HBO special movie on Walter Winchell to be aired on November 21, 1998.
	www.chss.montclair.edu /~pererat/mww.htm (370 words)

	HistoryForSale - Crime Autographs WALTER WINCHELL
		The "father of the newspaper gossip column", which he pioneered in the 1920s, Walter Winchell (1897-1972) created such phrases as "scram", "pushover" and "belly laughs".
		Winchell later narrated the television series, The Untouchables (1959-1963).
		Lightly creased with folds, light vertical fold at the "W" in Winchell.
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