On Sunday night we waited through the lineup of comedy programs for Walter Winchell to come on at nine.

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And the proliferation of TV investment shows--whose staccato bursts of trivia are something out of Walter Winchell, c. 1940--provide the forum.

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The names Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Fatty Arbuckle, Sophie Tucker, Charles Lindbergh, Walter Winchell, Sally Rand, Leopold and Loeb play through the novel's pages.

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If Drudge was gossipy, he was no more so than Walter Winchell had been in the 1930s and '40s--and hadn't Winchell grasped the evil of Hitler far quicker than the reigning grandee of American journalism, Walter Lippmann?

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