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When the New York Post ran a 24-part series heavily attacking him as inaccurate, unreliable and vindictive, Columnist Walter Winchell replied in a counterattack that went on for months. In the 200-odd dailies that carry his column, and over his Sunday-night radio-TV broadcast, Winchell called the Post everything from a "pinko-stinko sheet" and the "New York Ivan" to the "New York Posterior," the "New York Pravda" and the "Compost." He also suggested that the Post's staff was riddled with subversives. For Post Editor James A. Wechsler he had a separate set of Winchellisms...
...Winchell asked that his protection be changed to make it "foolproof." When ABC balked, he asked to end his four-year-old lifetime contract, and the ABC board agreed. By June, said Winchell, he expects to change to another network (probably NBC), and he may even produce his radio-TV program through his own company...
...syndicated column, fast-talking (about 215 words a minute) radio-TV Gossipist Walter Winchell gave an unusually candid explanation of his delivery speed: "The reason I talk fast is that if I talk slowly people will be able to hear what I say and find out how dull and unimportant it really...
...circulation practices will await the results of its appeal and hearings of a civil suit also filed by the Department of Justice. In the civil suit, which is now being prepared for trial, the Government wants the court to order the Star Co. to divorce its radio-TV station WDAF from the newspapers, and split up the Star and Times into two separate papers as far as circulation and ad rates are concerned...
...position in the Star would get "worse than ever." He testified that he found his ads buried on the Star's back pages. The Star Co., said other witnesses, also forced businessmen to put ads in the paper if they wanted time on the paper's radio-TV station...