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Walter Winchell, c. 1955.
Walter Winchell, c. 1955.

Walter Winchell

American journalist
Also known as: Walter Winchel
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Walter Winchell (born April 7, 1897, New York, New Yorkβ€”died February 20, 1972, Los Angeles, California) was a U.S. journalist and broadcaster whose newspaper columns and radio broadcasts containing news and gossip gave him a massive audience and much influence in the United States in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s. Winchell was raised in New York City, and when he was 13 he left school to go into vaudeville with Eddie Cantor and George Jessel....

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