Winchell's murder and the subsequent trial resulted in widespread press and a formal review of the U. S. " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " ( DADT ) military policy, ordered by President Bill Clinton.

Glover was later convicted of Winchell's murder.

The 2003 film Soldier's Girl is based on Winchell's murder and the events leading up to it.

Regretsy raised so much money so quickly that Paypal froze the Regretsy account – as well as Winchell's unrelated personal account – for six months in order to " investigate.

Winchell's parents, Wally and Patricia Kutteles, continued to press for a re-examination of the " Don't ask, don't tell " policy.

Great names in the history of dummy making include Frank Marshall ( the Chicago creator of Bergen's Charlie McCarthy, Nelson's Danny O ' Day, and Winchell's Jerry Mahoney ), Theo Mack and Son ( Mack carved Charlie McCarthy's head ), Revello Petee, Kenneth Spencer, David Strassman, Cecil Gough, Jeff Dunham, and Glen & George McElroy.

Winchell's most successful TV show was Winchell-Mahoney Time ( 1965 – 1968 ), a children's show written by his then wife, actress Nina Russel.

It features Bugs Bunny with Rocky and Mugsy ( in their final appearance ), and spoofs The Untouchables, a popular television crime drama ( complete with an impression of Walter Winchell's frantic narration, by Ralph James ).

At Walt Disney Studios, he voiced several lead characters including Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, ( taking over the character of Zummi Gummi after Paul Winchell's departure from the role ), DuckTales, Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, Bonkers, Gargoyles, and House of Mouse, and animated films such as Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Pocahontas.

# Winchell's Kingfisher or Rufous-lored Kingfisher ( Todiramphus winchelli ), Vulnerable

* Verne Winchell ( 1915 – 2002 ), founder of Winchell's Donuts

Winchell had retired as chief executive and president of Denny's Inc., which bought Winchell's Donut Houses in 1968.

Winchell's last regular on-camera TV appearances working with his puppets were The Storybook Squares, a children's version of the adult celebrity game show The Hollywood Squares which was seen Saturday mornings on NBC during the 1969 TV season, and Runaround, another children's TV game show seen Saturday mornings on NBC from September 1972 to September 1973.

The donut shop holdup takes place several blocks east of the club, which is the donut shop on Sherman Way called Miss Donuts, which used to be a Winchell's Donuts ; the scene where Dirk Diggler prostitutes himself in a pickup truck was filmed in the Bank of America parking lot across the street from the donut shop.

In 2004, Winchell's was purchased by Yum-Yum Donuts, a company which operates 70 donut shops under its own name, but continues to operate Winchell's shops under their historic name.

The company also operates the older and larger Winchell's Donuts chain, which Yum-Yum purchased in 2004.

There is some debate as to how much of Winchell's design Dr. Robert Jarvik used in creating Jarvik's artificial heart.

Verne Hedges Winchell ( October 15, 1915 – November 26, 2002 ) was the founder of Winchell's Donuts.

In 1976, according to BusinessWeek magazine, sales at Winchell's nationwide were $ 99 million, although the chain was by then a distant second to Dunkin ' Donuts.

By the 1930s, Winchell was " an intimate friend of Owney Madden, New York's No. 1 gang leader of the prohibition era ", but " in 1932 Winchell's intimacy with criminals caused him to fear he would be ' rubbed out ' for ' knowing too much.

Winchell's initial ambition was to become a doctor, but the Depression wiped out any chance of his family's ability to afford medical school tuition.

Winchell's first show as a ventriloquist was on radio with Jerry Mahoney in 1943.

Winchell's final performance as Tigger was in 1999 in Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You ( though Winchell played Tigger one more time in the attraction The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh featured in the Disney theme parks ).

The University of Utah developed a similar apparatus around the same time, but when they tried to patent it, Winchell's heart was cited as prior art.

Though the book it was based upon chronicled the experiences of Ness and his cohorts over a span of time ranging from 1929 to 1935, the overwhelming majority of the television episodes were broadcast in no chronological timeline, but were set in the early 1930s ( for example, one episode, " You Can't Pick the Number ", begins with Winchell's words, " October 1932 ... the depth of the Depression ").

* On Will & Grace, Will Truman mentions that Grace Adler missed her SATs because she was waiting for the hot donuts at Winchell's.

* The gravel roof of Winchell's Donuts was author Philip Yancey's home office view in his former Chicago home, as mentioned in " Reaching for the Invisible God.

After publicly apologizing, Paypal reinstated Winchell's accounts and donated $ 20, 000 to the families she was raising money for.

Word of the relationship spread at Winchell's Army base where he was harassed by fellow soldiers and ultimately murdered.

His column, ' Little Old New York ', concentrated on Broadway shows and gossip, as Winchell's had and, like Winchell, he also did show business news broadcasts on radio.

Sullivan soon became a powerful starmaker in the entertainment world himself, becoming one of Winchell's main rivals, setting the El Morocco nightclub in New York as his unofficial headquarters against Winchell's seat of power at the nearby Stork Club.

Of notable interest is that even though the chain no longer has a store within city limits, Winchell's Donuts originated in Temple City, opening on October 8, 1948.

Calloway also appeared on Walter Winchell's radio program and with Bing Crosby in his show at New York's Paramount Theatre.

A dispute with Jack Paar effectively ended Winchell's career, signaling a shift in power from print to television.

Many other columnists, such as Ed Sullivan in New York and Louella Parsons in Los Angeles, began to write gossip soon after Winchell's initial success.

Winchell's casual writing style famously earned him the ire of mobster Dutch Schultz, who confronted Winchell at New York's Cotton Club and publicly lambasted him for using the phrase " pushover " to describe Schultz's penchant for blonde women.

( Several of Winchell's former co-workers expressed a willingness to go, but were turned back by his daughter Walda.

Even during Winchell's lifetime, journalists were critical of his effect on the media.

Winchell's best-known ventriloquist dummies were Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff.

One became the upgraded Jerry Mahoney that is seen primarily throughout Winchell's television career.

Winchell's career after 1968, included a great deal of voice acting for animated cartoons, most notably for Disney and Hanna-Barbera.

Following Winchell's retirement, Cummings permanently took over the role of Tigger starting with Sing a Song with Pooh Bear in 1999.