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columnist
columnist the writer of an essay appearing regularly in a newspaper or periodical, usually under a constant heading. Although originally humorous, the column in many cases has supplanted the editorial for authoritative opinions on world problems. Usually independent of the policy of the publication... Read more
Joan Didion
Joan Didion , 1934-, American writer, b. Sacramento, Calif., grad. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1956. Her works often explore the despair of contemporary American life, a condition she views as produced by the disintegration of morality and values. She is known for a cool and almost brittle style ... Read more
Leslie Fiedler
Leslie Fiedler 1917-2003, American critic, b. Newark, N.J., grad. New York Univ. (B.A. 1938), Univ. of Wisconsin (Ph.D. 1941). In his best-known and most controversial work, Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), Fiedler uses Freudian analysis to argue the presence of subtle homosexual them... Read more
Alice Walker
Alice Walker 1944-, African-American novelist and poet, b. Eatonon, Ga. The daughter of sharecroppers, she studied at Spelman College (1961-63) and Sarah Lawrence College (B.A., 1965). She brings her travel experience in Africa and memories of the American civil-rights movement to an examination ... Read more
Walter Rudolf Hess
Walter Rudolf Hess 1881-1973, Swiss physiologist. For his work on the control of organs by certain areas of the brain he shared with Egas Moniz the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was (1917-51) professor and director of the physiology institute at the Univ. of Zürich. ... Read more
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Walter Reed Army Medical Center major hospital complex in Washington, D. C., and Forest Glen, Md.; est. 1923 and named for U.S. army surgeon Walter Reed. It is composed of seven units including a general hospital and a research institute. There are several thousand beds. ... Read more
Bruno Walter
Bruno Walter 1876-1962, German-American conductor, b. Berlin as Bruno Walter Schlesinger. Walter studied at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. After he had conducted in several German cities, Gustav Mahler appointed him (1901) assistant conductor of the Vienna State Opera, where he remained until 19... Read more
Walter Crane
Walter Crane 1845-1915, English designer, illustrator, and painter. As a painter he is grouped with the later Pre-Raphaelites, but he is better known for his illustrations of the works of Spenser and of Hawthorne's Wonder Book and Grimm's Fairy Tales. Seeking with William Morris to ally art w... Read more
Walter Hampden
Walter Hampden , 1879-1955, American actor, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., whose original name was Walter Hampden Dougherty. He made his first appearance in London in 1901. Returning to the United States in 1907, he supported Nazimova in an Ibsen series and later appeared in Kennedy's Servant in the House and... Read more
Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare , 1873-1956, English poet and novelist. For many years he worked in the accounting department of the Anglo-American Oil Company. Much of his verse and prose shows delight in imaginative excursions into the shadowed world between the real and the unreal. Included among his books of ... Read more

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Winchell, Walter
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Winchell, Walter [ né Wincheles ] (1897–1972), journalist. The most influential Broadway columnist of his day, he was born in New York...following, and he was credited with saving a number of Broadway shows, most notably Hellzapoppin , from probable failure. Biography: Winchell , Bob Thomas, ... Read more
Jessel, George (Albert)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...sick father. Jessell formed a vaudeville act with Jack Wiener, who became a Hollywood agent, and Walter Winchell , the renowned columnist. Later Winchell and Jessel joined Gus Edwards 's famous schoolchildren act, performing alongside Georgie Price... Read more
Herr, Michael
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...of the best accounts of combat by Americans in that war. Herr wrote the narration for the film Apocalypse Now and Walter Winchell: A Novel (1990), a fictional biography of the journalist famed in the 1930s and '40s, emphasizing his Jewishness... Read more
columnist
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Pearson , Dorothy Thompson, Arthur Krock , Westbrook Pegler, Walter Lippmann , James Reston , Joseph and Stewart Alsop , Russell...Noted newspaper columnists have included gossip columnists Walter Winchell, Louella Parsons, Liz Smith, and Suzy ; advice columnists... Read more
Spelvin, George
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...author of Hoss and Hoss (1893). Its use was most widely popularized by Winchell Smith , who first employed the name for a performer in Brewster's Millions...employed. In England the false name used for similar occasions is “Walter Plinge.” Read more
Edwards, Gus
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...Among the many future stars to whom he gave starts in his acts were Eddie Cantor , George Jessel , Georgie Price, Walter Winchell , and the Duncan sisters. While assembling acts, he also began to write songs. Still popular are his “In My... Read more
Hellzapoppin
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...production opened to divided, if largely favorable reviews, but owed much of its success to persistent plugging by Walter Winchell , at the time probably the most influential Broadway columnist. Read more
Good News!
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...Love; Varsity Drag. This melodic, roistering musical has often been called the quintessential musical of the 1920s. Walter Winchell welcomed the Schwab–Frank Mandel show as “flip, fast, furious, free and flamingly festive.”... Read more
Cradle Snatchers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...pleasantly, if not irrevocably, chastened. The Sam H. Harris and Hassard Short –produced comedy was hailed by Walter Winchell in the Graphic as “unquestionably the funniest play in town.” Many critics gave their brightest adjectives... Read more
William Hubbs Rehnquist
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and as feature editor of the paper of the all-white Shorewood high school was critical of such news commentators as Walter Winchell whom he believed interpreted rather than reported the news. At 17 during World War II the young Rehnquist volunteered... Read more

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Walter Winchell.
Magazine article from: National Review; 7/9/1990; ; 700+ words ; Walter Winchell PUT PAGE SIX, Liz Smith, and the Style...add ellipses, and you have the mix of Walter Winchell--but not the reach. At his height, in...voiceover on reruns of The Untouchables. Walter Winchell, by journalist Michael Herr, is factional... Read more
The Walter Winchell of the elites: the triumph of celebrityism in high-brow America.(Dominick Dunne)
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...high-brow America Wherever he is today, Walter Winchell must be positively pea green with...celebrity journalism in the 1930s, Winchell gave John and Jane Q. Public the...lump that new elite together. But Winchell plied his craft in an era when... Read more
Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity.
Magazine article from: St. Louis Journalism Review; 3/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...two-thirds of all Americans either read Walter Winchell's columns or listened to him on...today if he recognizes the name Walter Winchell, as I did, and you get a blank...erica's most influential journalists, Winchell could make or break reputations... Read more
Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity.
Magazine article from: The Progressive; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Gabler's dazzling biography, Winchell. Gossip, Power, and the Culture...Celebrity (Alfred A. Knopf), sees Walter Winchell's rise to stardom as emblematic...larger arguments. Neal Gabler's Winchell combines riveting biography...educational, and thought-provoking. Winchell, who started out as ... Read more
Paradoja del tiburon. (crítica de las óperas del compositor Virgil Thomson; parte 2)(TT: Paradox of the shark) (TA: critique of composer Virgil Thomson's operas; part 2)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 2/8/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...el juego de poder establecido entre Virgil Thomson y Walter Winchell, éste solo se atrevió a aludir a la condición homosexual del compositor. Winchell tenía miras más ambiciosas, como su complicidad... Read more
BSD signs 4 new tenants as downtown keeps buzzing.
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 11/21/2007; 313 words ; ...buildings are the Cancer Research Fund of The Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation, The Cancer Research Institute, The Griswold...behalf of the Cancer Research Fund of The Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation, a non-profit organization relocating from... Read more
Corporate governance along the digital divide.
Magazine article from: Directors & Boards; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...with top dot-com executives surfaces a starkly different portrait of stewardship. THE LEGENDARY newspaper columnist Walter Winchell once observed, Nothing recedes like success. Executives at a lot of dot-coms that were on top of the world just a... Read more
A star is born.(Tilting at Windmills)(J. Edgar Hoover, Lyndon Johnson)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 12/1/2005; ; 74 words ; ...not the only journalist to reward sources with favorable publicity. One of the most notorious examples is the way Walter Winchell built J. Edgar Hoover into a demigod during the many years the FBI director kept the columnist supplied with juicy... Read more
Stars struck: Harvey Levin brings his intensity to celebrity news.(Media)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 6/16/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...celebrity news Internet site TMZ.com and executive producer of its offshoot TV show, has been called a modern-day Walter Winchell, the gossip columnist of bygone days who could break a career with the turn of a devastating phrase. For Levin, that... Read more
Woody Allen: four years ago, the Bard of New York nebbishes hightailed it to Europe and began a new chapter in his career. Here, the legendary writer and director opens up about his latest film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, his seduction by Scarlett Johansson, his return to the big apple, and how he got his modernist Manhattanite mojo back.(Interview)
Magazine article from: Interview; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...business as a teenager. He would send in jokes to the popular newspaper columnists of the day--men like Earl Wilson and Walter Winchell--who would print the ones they liked and attribute them to Woody. Of course he did not inform these big Broadway... Read more