“The only thing red about Lucy is her hair, and even that is not legitimate” – Desi Arnaz responding to a report that his wife, Lucille Ball, was a Communist The nation was stunned when, on Sept. 6, ...

At four o’clock one morning last May two cheap sedans collided at the cornerof Manhattan’s 86th Street and Central Park West. Eight people were badlysmashed up. The driver of one of the cars was laid ...

The motives that move Columnist Walter Winchell’s wormlike thrusts are mysterious to the average man—but not so mysterious to those who feel the pressure of his vermiform “journalism.” Of late weeks, ...

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 ...

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 ...

On this day, Aug. 24, in 1939, the leader of the mob hit squad, “Murder Inc.” surrendered to columnist Walter Winchell, who then turned him over to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. In 1937, Louis “Lepke” ...

The Walter Winchell File is the title of a television crime drama series that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York City Police Department that were covered in the New ...

Biopic of the controversial muckraking journalist Walter Winchell. After spending 12 years in vaudeville, Winchell began writing a column in the New York Mirror. Part gossip, part half-truths, the ...

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