biography
| name: |
Winchell, Walter
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originally Winchel
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1972)
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| biography:
| Journalist, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Father of the newspaper gossip column which he pioneered in the 1920s along with many slangy neologisms, he was also a familiar voice on radio, from 1929 until the mid-1950s, with his staccato delivery punctuated by the sound of teletype keys. |
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