The game was played on March 4, 1932 but narrator Walter Winchell's script put the date at March 5, possibly because researchers would have found stories about the night game in the next morning's newspapers.
The recipients were brought to New York City by Walter Winchell for a fundraiser for the Widows and orphans of New York City firemen and policemen.
On March 4, 1948, Walter Winchell named Gallinger as one of the players involved in the gambling scandal.
Broadway columnist and radio personality Walter Winchell "discovered" her and got her into Hollywood movies.
Hope told Walter Winchell that he had starred in the film and then added "When they catch Dillinger, they're going to make him sit through it twice."
In addition, the character name "Waldo Twitchell" is pun of the name Walter Winchell.
The Walter Winchell File - featured crime stories from the 1950s TV show featuring the newspaper columnist.
In one Untouchables episode, he was described by series narrator Walter Winchell as "Agent Jack Rossman-- former telephone company lineman, wiretap expert, and a locksmith so talented that "Rossman could open everything but the Pearly Gates.
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During this period, The Post became known as a crusading liberal newspaper, undertaking investigate exposes of J. Edgar Hoover, Walter Winchell and Robert Moses, among others.
Colan was music/DJ curator at Manhattan's now-defunct Table 50, named for Walter Winchell's table at the Stork Club.
His awards include a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Postdoctoral, a Leukemia Social Special Fellowship, an American Cyanamid Preceptorship Award and the DuPont Young Faculty Grant.
The Walter Winchell File is the title of a television crime drama series that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York City Police Department that were covered in the New York Daily Mirror.