Word: brittingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brash Joseph Coughlin, 49, 204 lb., got to be a small-talk columnist a few years before Walter Winchell. At 24, Roundy was pushing a lawnmower in Madison's Brittingham Park (he had quit school in the fifth grade, had been a dynamite hauler, telephone repairer, sledge-hammerer, semi-pro baseball pitcher). He started penciling names and items he heard around the park's tennis courts and bathing beach, sold them as a weekly sports column to the Capital Times. The technique and Roundy's idiom have not changed a bit in 25 years. The State Journal...