The age of entertainment-driven politics in which an actor or a reality-TV show host can be president had its origins with a popular newspaper columnist in the 1930s. Such is the premise of Ben ...
The Cancer Research Fund, of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation, is accepting applications for postdoctoral fellowships to perform research on cancer causes, therapies, and prevention. Who is ...
Walter Winchell, the gossip-columnist star of newspapers and radio whose career was derailed in the television era, gets the “American Masters” treatment this week on PBS. Titled “Walter Winchell: The ...
Who has changed America? People like Nina Simone, Mae West, Pam Grier, Keith Haring, Cecily Tyson, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Twyla Tharp. Think of Amy Tan, Doc Severinsen, Lena Horne, Walter Winchell, ...
Walter Winchell was a syndicated columnist, radio news commentator and television host who pioneered the fast-paced, gossip driven, politically charged media culture that dominates today. At the ...
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Last week Walter Winchell rushed into type with the lowdown on those saucers in the sky (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). They were flying wings, said Walter; he knew all about it, including details of a ...
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 ABC in 1955 in a dispute with executives. The ...