Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words, of course, were not the Times's own; they were quoted from the gossip-colyum of Walter Winchell in the tabloid Daily Mirror. Directly and indirectly they made Walter Winchell news last week: directly because his colyum was on the street only six hours before Gangster Vincent Coll was machine-gunned to death in a telephone booth, and Colyumist Winchell (who had been frightened into getting a police bodyguard) was summoned before the Grand Jury to explain his advance information; indirectly because they precipitated a new climax in a long-standing squabble between Winchell and Publisher Albert John...
...full year ago it became an open secret that only a contract held Winchell to the Mirror. He fought continually with Publisher Kobler and he fought with Managing Editor Emile Henry Gauvreau-with whom he used to fight when they occupied similar positions on Bernarr Macfadden's vulgar Graphic. Publisher Kobler objected to Winchell's appearance in vaudeville. He objected to Winchell's radio broadcasts (currently for Lucky Strike), charging that he gave out news to which the paper was first entitled. He removed the colyumist's smart, pert secretary Ruth Cambridge from the payroll (Winchell...
Matters became warmer last month when the Mirror asked Winchell to write for its new Sunday edition. Winchell demanded an extra day's pay ($166) on the basis of his $1,000 weekly salary. Refusing, the Mirror engaged a Sunday substitute...
...Vincent Coll incident caused a new ruckus. Publisher Kobler, startled by the implication that Winchell was privy to the councils of murderers, barred colyumist & secretary from any part of the Mirror building save their own small office...
Every move by the Mirror is carefully considered lest it give Winchell the supreme satisfaction of breaking his contract. The instant that should occur Winchell would skip three blocks downtown to Joseph Medill Patterson's big little Daily News (completing his ascension of the scale of Manhattan tabloids). According to Newsdom, weekly of unemployed newspapermen, the News offered Winchell $1,000 a week for a Sunday colyum alone...