WINCHELL, WALTER. The most powerful and most controversial of all Broadway columnists; b. New York, New York, ; d. Los Angeles, California, .
Columnist
Walter Winchell’s
colorful vocabulary was as well known as his opinions. Lexicographer W. J. Funk included Winchell among a list of the 10 major contributors of American Slang. Fellow columnist Alexander Woollcott once noted: With a punch line at the end of a column, his own or judiciously quoted, he is capable...