Word: mckelway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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GOSSIP: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WALTER WINCHELL-St. Clair McKelway-Viking...
...months ago The New Yorker delivered to its 152,777 subscribers the sixth and final installment of the longest "profile" (thumbnail biography) it ever ran. The subject: gun-toting, fox-faced Walter Winchell, No. 1 U. S. transom-peeper. The author: St. Clair McKelway, free-lance newshawk and onetime managing editor of The New Yorker. So sharp was Mc-Kelway's scalpel that Winchell, who had expected a pat on the head, did not realize until the operation was well begun that his throat was being slit. This week the operation appeared in book form for as many...
...Winchell and most of his readers believe he is "fiendishly and uncannily accurate." McKelway checked representative columns, found Winchell was "41.2% completely inaccurate, 18.3% partially inaccurate, 40.5% completely accurate...
...world's most successful tattler, McKelway does more than tattle. His aching concern is the "Legacy of an Ex-Hoofer"-the effect of Winchellism on the standards of the press. When Winchell began gossiping in 1924 for the late scatological tabloid Evening Graphic, no U. S. paper hawked rumors about the marital relations of public figures until they turned up in divorce courts. For 16 years gossip columny spread until even the staid New York Times whispered that it heard from friends of a son of the President that he was going to be divorced. "The Graphic...
...Author McKelway's concern for newspaper ethics Winchell sneers: "Oh stop! You talk like a high-school student of journalism...