Walter Winchell

thumb|Walter Winchell (1960) Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972), an American newspaper and radio commentator, invented the gossip column at the New York Evening Graphic. Quotes about Winchell At the height of his popularity, in the late 1930s, 50 million people—two-thirds of American adults—read Winchell's syndicated column and listened to his Sunday-night radio broadcast. Sam Kashner in Sweet Smell of Success: A Movie Marked Danger Vanity Fair's Tales of Hollywood https://books.google.com/books?id=BdCSPtFh69EC&pg=PA80 Hated, feared, and revered, he presided over Table 50 of the Stork Club on East 53d Street in Manhattan, creating and destroying celebrities at the drop of his trademark gray snap-brim fedora. Mervyn Rothstein: That Loathsome Winchell. A Natural for a Book NY Times 12 June 1990 https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/12/books/that-loathsome-winchell-a-natural-for-a-book.html (review of Walter Winchell: A Novel by Michael Herr) "He came to dinner at our house and was at his Royal best,always referring to himself in the third person. After he had left,myfather Chico said--"That's one of the things wrong with show business.A (CENSORED) like that can make or break a career" Maxine Marx,in the book she wrote about her father Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers External links Category:1897 births Category:1972 deaths Category:Journalists from the United States Category:Columnists from the United States Category:Radio personalities Category:Political commentators from the United States Category:Jews from the United States Category:People from New York City