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.

The day when Walter Winchell and Dorothy Kilgallen, the Broadway stars they tattled on, and the star-struck theatergoers who adored them, all hung out at Sardi's. Start the day smarter.

The rise and fall of America's premiere gossip columnist. Walter Winchell - the man who put 'investigative' into journalism. From young starlets to aging businessmen, from Adolf Hitler to Joseph ...

Columnist Walter Winchell had been a mainstay on the early years of ABC television with a simulcast of his 15-minute weekly time radio show until he left ABC in 1955 in a dispute with executives.