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Article: Walter Winchell.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 9, 1990
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Walter Winchell
PUT PAGE SIX, Liz Smith, and the Style section together, add ellipses, and you have the mix of Walter Winchell--but not the reach. At his height, in the Forties, his six-day-a-week newspaper column was read by fifty million people, while his weekly radio broadcast (number one on the airwaves) was heard by more. Press agents fawned on him; careers and marriages took off or ran on the rocks because of his well- or ill-timed words; he thought he was a friend of Franklin Roosevelt, he was a friend of Damon Runyon, and he arranged the surrender of Louis Lepke to J. Edgar Hoover. Today, all that remains of him is the sandpaper voiceover on reruns of The ...
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