On Sunday night we waited through the lineup of comedy programs for Walter Winchell to come on at nine.
And the proliferation of TV investment shows--whose staccato bursts of trivia are something out of Walter Winchell, c. 1940--provide the forum.
Also, it could be interpreted as an attempt at a whitewash, which is something that Denton scorns in others with the ferocity of Mencken and Winchell.
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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In an email later Tuesday to CNN, Winchell said she'd had an "encouraging" conversation with PayPal and that they were still discussing a donation to the fund.
"If I call (spokesman) Dave Winchell today and say I want to talk to Rich Preall, within a half an hour Rich Preall is calling me back, " he said.
Run by actress-comedian April Winchell, Regretsy is a snarky blog created primarily to mock what it considers awkward, ugly or otherwise head-turning offerings on the arts-and-crafts site Etsy.
On Monday, Winchell wrote that PayPal, which was processing the donations, shut down the drive because she had used a "Donate" button that she learned is only for nonprofit groups.
The imagery was of a lonely freighter out there somewhere in the dark, with Winchell's disembodied voice floating out of the blackness, like a rumor, a message in a bottle.
We were alone together in the house only a few days after the Winchell broadcast when Sandy removed the portfolio from under his bed and carried it into the dining room.
In a post Tuesday afternoon, Winchell thanked her supporters.
Last month, Winchell, who uses the pen name "Helen Killer" on the blog, put out a call for community members who knew of children at risk of not getting gifts this Christmas.
Because Winchell's fearless bellicosity had propelled all of our neighbors outdoors as well, what had begun for us as a cheerful little evening stroll ended as an impromptu block party for everyone.
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?
After a warm day, it had grown cool enough to sit comfortably indoors without perspiring, but when Winchell signed off at nine-fifteen, our parents were moved to go outside for the four of us to take in the lovely evening together.
Regretsy pokes fun at Etsy objects like an Easter hat for cats made of pipe cleaners and a pizza cutter attached to deer antlers and has more than one million unique visitors each month, says owner April Winchell, 52, of Los Angeles.
Nominees for best actor in a miniseries or made-for-TV movie were Sam Shepard for his role as author Dashiell Hammett in "Dash and Lilly, " Jack Lemmon for "Inherit the Wind" (Showtime), Ian Holm for "King Lear" on PBS, Don Cheadle for "A Lesson Before Dying" (HBO) and Stanley Tucci for "Winchell" (HBO).
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