"The Shakespeare of Gossip"
The talented and tireless on-Broadway gossip godfather Walter Winchell was the terror of American show business and political figures for decades. Holding court at his reserved table in New York's famed Stork Club, he accepted homage from the city's fabulous and powerful into the wee hours, then wrote up his observations for publication in the next day's New York Daily Mirror. Winchell drew readers in with his poetically breezy vocabulary and by swaying rapidly from one topic to the next through a rambling train of curiously compelling ellipses. For moderns, his skewering of the pompous and roasting of the untalented brings a fascinating, street-level view of the classical age of American entertainment.
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A Collection of Columns . . . from 1939 - 1945
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Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
Learn about the German American Bund, or American Nazi party, in this video from Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip | American Masters. Using discussion questions, vocabulary terms, and video (including archival footage of American Nazi Youth Summer Camps and a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden), students examine a dark and little known part of American history leading up to World War II.
Walter Winchell radio broadcast
9/10/1944
1944
"Let's Not Be Beastly to the Japs"
St. Petersburg Times/February 3, 1944
Spy Stuff
St. Petersburg Times/March 2, 1944
The Berlin-Madrid-Buenos Aires Axis
St. Petersburg Times/March 4, 1944
Broadway Ballad
St. Petersburg Times/March 6, 1944
The Private Papers of a Cub Reporter
New York Daily Mirror/March 21, 1944
New York Daily Mirror/March 24, 1944
Portrait of a Man (Waiting for a Subpoena)
Notes of a Newspaperman
(Waiting for That Subpoena)
Twin City Sentinel/April 4, 1944
Memos About Song Writers
North Adams Transcript/December 20, 1944
Humanity vs. The German People
Birmingham News/December 21, 1944
1945
A Reporter's Report to the Nation
St. Petersburg Times/July 3, 1945
Man About Town
St. Petersburg Times/July 5, 1945
Lint From a Blue Serge Suit
St. Petersburg Times/July 6, 1945
Broadway Rhythm
St. Petersburg Times/August 2, 1945
Things I Never Knew About the Coast Guard
St. Petersburg Times/August 4, 1945
1939
On Broadway
Spartanburg Herald/March 18, 1940
Spartanburg Herald/March 19, 1940
Spartanburg Herald/March 20, 1940
Spartanburg Herald/March 21, 1940
Spartanburg Herald/March 22, 1940
Burlington Times-News/March 24, 1940
Spartanburg Herald/April 1, 1940
Spartanburg Herald/April 2, 1940
Spartanburg Herald/April 3, 1940
Spartanburg Herald/April 4, 1940
New York Heartbeat
Spartanburg Herald/April 5, 1940
Man About Town
Spartanburg Herald/May 1, 1940
Mr. Hollywood and His Girl
Spartanburg Herald/May 2, 1940
New York Heartbeat
Spartanburg Herald/May 3, 1940
The New York Scene
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 6, 1940
Man About Town
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 7, 1940
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 8, 1940
The Private Papers of a Cub Reporter
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 9, 1940
These Charming People
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 12, 1940
Memos of a Girl Friday
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 13, 1940
The New York Scene
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 14, 1940
Man About Town
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 15, 1940
The Private Papers of a Cub Reporter
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 16, 1940
New York Heartbeat
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 17, 1940
Things I Never Knew About Glamour Girls
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 19, 1940
Memos of a Girl Friday
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 20, 1940
The New York Scene
Spartanburg Herald-Journal/May 21, 1940
Spartanburg Herald.October 3, 1940
All Quiet on the American Front
Spartanburg Herald/October 4, 1940
Londoners are Talking About...
Spartanburg Herald/November 1, 1940
Man About Town
Spartanburg Herald/April 9, 1942
Walter Winchell
Spartanburg Herald/April 16, 1942
Notes of a New York Newsboy
Spartanburg Herald/October 2, 1942
Memos of a Girl Friday
Spartanburg Herald/November 1, 1942
Notes of an Innocent Bystander
Spartanburg Herald/November 2, 1942