Forty-eight years after his lonely death—and even though millions of people under a certain age in the United States are unaware that he even existed—Walter Winchell continues to exert a ...

Czitrom: The combination of his radio success and his syndicated newspaper column makes Winchell probably the single most popular and powerful man in the entertainment business. Gabler ...

Much to the dismay of his many critics, Walter Winchell, wouldn’t — and still won’t — go away. An innovator of the gossip column and early radio idol, his style was unmistakable.

The motives that move Columnist Walter Winchell’s wormlike thrusts are mysterious to the average man—but not so mysterious to those who feel the pressure of his vermiform “journalism.” ...

At four o’clock one morning last May two cheap sedans collided at the cornerof Manhattan’s 86th Street and Central Park West. Eight people were badlysmashed up. The driver of one of the cars ...

A paragraph by Walter Winchell, the well-known columnist, is made the subject today of a tirade in the “Voelkischer Beobachter,” the organ of the Hitlerists in Germany. The “Beobachter ...

Meet Walter Winchell, the newspaper columnist, radio commentator and television personality who pioneered the fast-paced, gossip-driven, politically charged journalism that dominates today.

(undated photo) Winchell’s own words comprise nearly a quarter of the script as the film tracks the rise and fall of his career, and his continued influence on today’s media. “Walter ...