Word: scooper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some time the writer of that column has been Walter Winchell, no ordinary scandal-scooper. Famed is he in theatre lobbies, speakeasies, night clubs. From one gossip-centre to another he travels to get column material. Alert, the Winchell ears hear all. Amiable, the Winchell disposition makes friends easily, elicits scandal-scraps. Then, at three and four in the morning, he goes back to his typewriter and two-fingers what he has learned, adding here and there the result of an imaginative mind...