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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...number of Broadway shows, most notably Hellzapoppin , from probable failure. Biography: Winchell , Bob Thomas, 1971.
Ed Sullivan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Graphic, the same paper at which Walter Winchell, developed his celebrated gossip column. Sullivan coveted Winchell's influence and wanted to move in the same circles. When Winchell left for the Mirror in 1931, Sullivan...
Jessel, George (Albert)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...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...
columnist
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Dorothy Thompson, Arthur Krock , Westbrook Pegler, Walter Lippmann , James Reston , Joseph and Stewart Alsop...newspaper columnists have included gossip columnists Walter Winchell, Louella Parsons, Liz Smith, and "Suzy" ; advice...
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 “...
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.
Good News!
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...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...
Lepke Buchalter
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...deal" to serve only a short prison sentence, Lepke made an agreement with the noted radio and newspaper columnist, Walter Winchell, to turn himself in. J. Edgar Hoover, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, approved the surrender arrangement...
Oscar Levant
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...popular city nightspots. His satiric wit and skills at the keyboard soon became fodder for gossip columnists such as Walter Winchell, who recognized the value of Levant's caustic remarks. Friendship with Gershwin Levant first heard Gershwin...
William Hubbs Rehnquist
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...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...

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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...ellipses, and you have the mix of Walter Winchell--but not the reach. At his height...like beauty, isn't enough. If Walter Winchell had had a trace of Hemingway's talent...
Walter Winchell, Mr. and Mrs. America, And All the Ships at Sea
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/2/1994; ; 700+ words ; Winchell Gossip, Power and the Culture...Ageneration ago, millions loved Walter Winchell's newspaper column and...applies also to the media. Winchell was proof that such power...Jew, Chaim Weinschel, Walter Winschel (the spelling...
Walter Winchell, In His Glory Days
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/21/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...batty, cuckoo and haywire. Walter Winchell was one of the most famous...table. Later, FDR summons Winchell to help with national morale and the war effort. He greets Winchell in Winchellese: "Walter, I've got an item for you...
Gossip's Forgotten Ancestor; Yes, Walter Winchell Still Haunts Mr. and Mrs. America
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/6/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...Americans, 50 million of whom read Walter Winchell's newspaper column every day...only knew about through Walter Winchell, the wizard of the American vicarious...powerful and famous men of his time. Winchell discovered and occupied a space...
Hollywood Gossip.(actor/director Stanley Tucci discusses the history and impact of Walter Winchell)(Brief Article)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Esquire; 12/1/1998; 700+ words ; ...Esquire: Let's talk about gossip. How did Walter Winchell become Walter Winchell? Tucci: He supposedly created contemporary...is that? Anybody can do that. Are there any Walter Winchell punch lines you'd like to share? He signed...
Walter Winchell's Ghost
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/31/1998; 387 words ; ...his review of the HBO special "Walter Winchell, in His Glory Days" {Style...goes off track when it stops being Winchell and starts being {Herman} Klurfeld...press agents" employed by Mr. Winchell. However, the film makes the...
Ghostwriter for Walter Winchell
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/22/2006; 378 words ; ...for pioneering gossip columnist Walter Winchell, died Monday. He was 90. Mr...1965, he wrote two to four of Winchell's columns a week and at one point...large and signature sections of Winchell's Sunday evening radio broadcasts...
HBO film transports guests to era of Walter Winchell.(Metropolitan Times)(Party Lines)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 11/20/1998; ; 570 words ; ...screening of HBO's new movie, "Winchell." So did Stanley Tucci's performance...as venerable radio gossip hound Walter Winchell. "Wow!" Sen. Daniel Patrick...columnist. (At the height of Winchell's power, HBO tells us, 55 million...
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 ; ...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...
Washington's own Walter Winchell? (journalist Al Kamen)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 3/3/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...human bulletin board invites comparison with that of Walter Winchell on the national stage in the 1930s and '40s. The source...Maybe it is gossip's diminished glamour, but, unlike Winchell, Kamen is no boulevardier. He's rarely seen at whatever...