“Good reviews cannot always save you,” wrote TVulcan Walter Winchell, 60, in last week’s TV Guide. “We speak from experience. Last year’s W.W. variety show, for example.” As another example, Winchell ...

Walter Winchell grew up poor in East Harlem, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He quickly rose from vaudeville hoofer to Broadway blabber by posting gossip about his acting troupe on backstage ...

With a trumpeting of Page One headlines, the New York Post (circ. 390,000) last week launched a series on Hearst Columnist Walter Winchell, “probably the biggest success story in American journalism.” ...