Lyon around: Columnist Walter Winchell, well and rat-a-tat-tatty again, wheeled thru town between trains yesterday en route to his Phoenix, Ariz., rancho, portable typewriter in hand.

* 1897 – Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist ( d. 1972 )

Walter Winchell and other writers continued to use the name in the 1940s and 1950s.

In 1935, American radio commentator Walter Winchell coined the term " disc jockey " ( the combination of disc, referring to the disc records, and jockey, which is an operator of a machine ) as a description of radio announcer Martin Block, the first announcer to become a star.

* After Runyon's death, his friend and fellow journalist, Walter Winchell, went on his radio program and appealed for contributions to help fight cancer, eventually establishing the “ Damon Runyon Cancer Memorial Fund ” to support scientific research into causes of, and prevention of cancer.

The Men Who Invented Broadway: Damon Runyon, Walter Winchell & Their World.

When Walter Winchell, one of the original gossip columnists and the most powerful entertainment reporter of his day, left the newspaper for the Hearst syndicate, Sullivan took over as theatre columnist.

Frank Costello helped encourage this view by feeding Hoover, " an inveterate horseplayer " known to send Special Agents to place $ 100 bets for him, tips on sure winners through their mutual friend, gossip columnist Walter Winchell.

** Walter Winchell, American journalist ( b. 1897 )

** Walter Winchell, American broadcast journalist ( d. 1972 )

Following a screening of the Zanuck version, columnist Walter Winchell approached the studio head and told him, " I didn't get ending.

The film tells the story of powerful newspaper columnist J. J. Hunsecker ( portrayed by Lancaster and clearly based on Walter Winchell ) who uses his connections to ruin his sister's relationship with a man he deems inappropriate.

Mackendrick wanted to cast Hume Cronyn because he felt that Cronyn closely resembled Walter Winchell, the basis for the Hunsecker character in the novelette.

James Wong Howe: Cinematographer, a 1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with Howe, a new video interview with film critic and historian Neal Gabler ( Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity ) about legendary columnist Walter Winchell, inspiration for the character J. J. Hunsecker, and a new video interview with filmmaker James Mangold about Mackendrick, his instructor and mentor.

The first gossip columnist, dominating the 1930s and 40s, was Walter Winchell, who used political, entertainment, and social connections to mine information and rumors, which he then either published in his column On Broadway, or used for trade or blackmail, to accumulate more power.

* Walter Winchell

She caught the attention of columnists such as Walter Winchell and Mark Hellinger, who began giving her publicity.

He was known as the King of the One Liners, a title bestowed upon him by columnist Walter Winchell.

* Walter Winchell, newspaper and radio commentator, had a large home in Edgemont ( which still stands )

In 1940, on an anti-war platform, Rankin was elected to Congress for a second time, replacing Republican Jacob Thorkelson who Walter Winchell had called, "… the mouthpiece of the Nazi movement in congress ".

Walter Winchell credited Guinan with opening the insider Broadway scene and cafe society to him when he was starting as a gossip columnist.

The three best-known of these include the 1950s / 1960s TV series titled The Untouchables, which starred Robert Stack as Ness and which Walter Winchell narrated, and Brian De Palma's Oscar-winning film of the same title, The Untouchables, which starred Kevin Costner as Ness and also featured Sean Connery and Robert De Niro.

During a 1935 radio broadcast Walter Winchell incorrectly reported that Mae West had been married to Guido's brother, Pietro.

Walter Wincher, a writer for Accordion News magazine, corrected the error: " In a recent radio broadcast, Walter Winchell conveyed the information that Pietro Deiro had been married to Mae West for four years.

* Wheelwright, Lynn ; Carter, Walter ( 28 April 2010 ).

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Led by Rudolph Hermann who arrived in April 1937 from the University of Aachen, the number of technical staff members reached two hundred in 1943, and it also included Hermann Kurzweg of the ( University of Leipzig ) and Walter Haeussermann.

Construction began with the interdict hanging over Normandy, but it was later repealed in April 1197 by Pope Celestine III, after Richard made gifts of land to Walter de Coutances and the diocese of Rouen, including two manors and the prosperous port of Dieppe.

On April 5, 1925, George Rappleyea, who worked as a local manager for the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, happened to meet county superintendent of schools Walter White and local attorney Sue K. Hicks at Robinson's Drug Store and convinced them that the controversy of such a trial would give Dayton much needed publicity.

* April 21 – Walter Model, German field marshal ( b. 1891 )

* April 25 – Walter Tewksbury, American athlete ( b. 1876 )

* April 2 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer ( d. 1940 )

* April 6 – Walter Huston, American actor ( d. 1950 )

* April 19 – John Walter Smith, American politician ( b. 1845 )

* 9 April – Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland ( b. 1293 )

* 1 May 1958 – 30 April 1988: Hans Walter Wild ( lord mayor ; SPD )

Supercentenarian Walter Breuning, the world's oldest verified living man from September 21, 1896 to his death on April 14, 2011, began working as a railroader for Hill's company in 1913 at the age of 17.

At the April 2008 elections, Umbria gave more than 47 % of its votes to Walter Veltroni.

Poster for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | Lincoln Center production by James McMullanArcadia first opened at the Royal National Theatre in London on 13 April 1993 in a production directed by Trevor Nunn and featuring Rufus Sewell as Septimus Hodge, Felicity Kendal as Hannah Jarvis, Bill Nighy as Bernard Nightingale, Emma Fielding as Thomasina Coverly, Alan Mitchell as Jellaby, Derek Hutchinson as Ezra Chater, Sidney Livingston as Richard Noakes, Harriet Walter as Lady Croom, Graham Sinclair as Captain Brice, Harriet Harrison as Chloe Coverly, Timothy Matthews as Augustus Coverly and Gus Coverly and Samuel West as Valentine Coverly.

Phillip Walter Katz ( November 3, 1962 – April 14, 2000 ) was a computer programmer best known as the co-creator of the ZIP file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files which ran under DOS.

Walter Percy Chrysler ( April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940 ) was an American automotive industry executive and founder of the Chrysler Corporation.

The Futurist art movement was important for the development of the noise aesthetic, as was the Dada art movement ( a prime example being the Antisymphony concert performed on April 30, 1919 in Berlin ), and later the Surrealist and Fluxus art movements, specifically the Fluxus artists Joe Jones, Yasunao Tone, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Wolf Vostell, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Walter De Maria's Ocean Music, Milan Knížák's Broken Music Composition, early LaMonte Young and Takehisa Kosugi.

A Night to Remember is a 1955 non-fiction book by Walter Lord about the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912.

On about 18 April 1942, Walter Maiersperger, the Commanding Officer of 33 Bomb Squadron of the United States Army Air Force's 22nd Bomb Group, carried out an aerial reconnaissance flight over the Iron Range area.

The Town of Cornell was laid out by Walter P. Cornell ( 3 April 1811-5 May 1889 ) on 15 June 1871.

On April 27, 2003, 78-year-old Walter Reid Morrill, known to the town by his middle name, died of arsenic poisoning after drinking coffee at the Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church in New Sweden, and 15 other, mostly elderly churchgoers became ill, three of them seriously.

* Walter Breuning-He was the oldest man in the world before he died April 14, 2011 ; born in Melrose in 1896.

On the 8th of November 1938 Walter W. Camp from the village of Castorland applied for a patent on his invention of a device of applying rubber bands and he was awarded his patent on 1 April 1941.

* Audio: Dr. Walter Ziffer, Holocaust survivor and theology professor, discusses this article Hear Dr. Walter Ziffer ( the last Holocaust survivor in Asheville, North Carolina as of April 11, 2004 ) discuss this article.