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.

Since 1990, he has been voiced by Jim Cummings ( who is also the voice of Pooh ), with the exception of Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin ( 1997 ), A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving ( 1998 ), and Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine For You ( 1999 ), in which Winchell reprised the role of Tigger.

Winchell was also a successful horse breeder and owner.

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.

Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Winchell was also an outspoken supporter of civil rights for African Americans, and frequently attacked the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups as supporting un-American, pro-Nazi goals.

" Winchell also labeled African-American-French entertainer Josephine Baker as a communist after she took him to task for not questioning the racial-discriminatory policies of the Stork Club in New York.

Winchell announced his retirement on February 5, 1969, citing the tragedy of his son's suicide as a major reason, while also noting the delicate health of Magee.

** Voiced by Paul Winchell ( who also provided the voices of Goofy Gopher and Cuckoo ), and by Bill Farmer in the 2008 version

From 1950-1954, he hosted The Paul Winchell Show, which also used two other titles during its prime time run on NBC, The Speidel Show and What's My Name?

Winchell, who had medical training, was also an inventor, becoming the first person to build and patent a mechanical artificial heart, implantable in the chest cavity ( US Patent # 3097366 ).

Winchell also created Oswald, a character that resembled Humpty Dumpty.

Winchell also appeared in Mrs. Doubtfire as the trolley driver in 1993.

Winchell also concluded that the weathering of the stone indicated the inscription was roughly 500 years old.

Pith Possum ( even when in his true identity ) also has developed a crush on a female human reporter named Doris Deer ( voiced by April Winchell ).

Weems also signed 14 year old ventriloquist Paul Winchell to a contract, after seeing him with one of the Major Bowes touring companies.

At Disney, Cummings not only replaced Hal Smith as the voice of Winnie-the-Pooh in 1988 ( Smith had replaced longtime actor Sterling Holloway in the early 1980s ), but also began voicing Tigger in 1990, replacing Paul Winchell ( though Winchell continued to voice Tigger occasionally until 1999 ).

SLDN has also received criticism for presenting the " Barry Winchell Courage Award ", named for Barry Winchell, an Army private who was murdered after it was discovered that he was dating transsexual activist and actress Calpernia Addams.

" In the Daily Mirror, columnist Walter Winchell mentioned " Brooklyn's spy nest, also known as the swastika swishery.

Winchell also believed that the laws of evolution operated according to the will of God.

Winchell was also one of the founders of the Geological Society of America, a chief organizer of the Minnesota Academy of Sciences, and president of several societies.

Winchell also believed that the laws of evolution operated according to the will of God.

Besides her many contributions to radio advertising as a performer, writer and director, Winchell also hosted a radio talk show program on KFI, a Los Angeles radio station.

* 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 ".

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

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.

In 1948 Winchell had the top rated radio show when he surpassed Fred Allen and Jack Benny.

When Winchell heard that Marlen Edwin Pew of the trade journal Editor & Publisher had criticized him as a bad influence on the American press, he thereafter referred to him as " Marlen Pee-you ".

Having spent the previous two years on welfare, Winchell, Jr. had last been employed as a dishwasher in Santa Ana, California, but listed himself as a freelancer who for a time wrote a column in the Los Angeles Free Press, an alternate newspaper published in the 1960s and 1970s.

( The syndicated Atom Ant, Secret Squirel and Gulliver episodes had a rotation of eight repeating clips edited into them, with Paul Winchell redubbing Fleegle's voice to introduce various cartoon segments.

Sometime later Winchell had basswood copies of Jerry's head made by a commercial duplicating service.

The first edition featured artwork by Winchell Chung, while the second had a much larger print run and rulebook artwork by Clark Bradly rather than Chung.

According to Winchell, the tree under which the stone was allegedly found had been destroyed before 1910, but several nearby poplars that witnesses estimated as being about the same size were cut down, and by counting their rings it was determined they were indeed around 30 – 40 years old ( NB: letters were written to members of a team which had excavated at the find site in 1899, and their estimates from memory, without any reference to tree rings, ranged as low as 10 – 12 years in the case of county schools superintendent Cleve Van Dyke ).

In 1967, Carol Burnett had been a popular veteran of television for 11 years, having made her first appearances on the video tube in 1956 on such programs as The Paul Winchell Show and the sitcom Stanley starring the comedian Buddy Hackett.

Blogger April Winchell investigated and discovered that the necklaces featured a common design which a number of other artists, both on and outside of Etsy, had been selling for at least a year prior to Koerner's first sale.

Additionally, Winchell drew attention to a commenter's discovery of another instance in which Koerner had claimed credit for a design that was not originally hers.

Since his earlier time in the newspaper business in New York, Harrison had contact with the famous gossip columnist Walter Winchell.

As Winchell wrote in his book on Fiedler, " Reading ‘ Come Back to the Raft ’ over half a century later, one tends to forget that, prior to Fiedler, few critics had discussed classic American literature in terms of race, gender, and sexuality " ( Winchell 53 ).

The show had only two voice actors: Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly and the indistinctly heard General, and Don Messick as everybody else.

Winchell and Magee successfully kept the secret of their nonmarriage, but were struck by tragedy with all three of their children.

Winchell made three trips to Kensington, examining the find site, the similar glacier-carried boulders in the area, and interviewing Olaf Ohman ( the finder of the stone ), his neighbors, and townspeople.

The series depicted three fun-loving bears — the Afroed, fast-talking Hair Bear ( voiced by Daws Butler ), confusing-talking Bubi Bear ( voiced by Paul Winchell ), and laid-back Square Bear ( voiced by William Callaway ) — who are always trying to find a way to escape the Wonderland Zoo on some sort of get-rich-quick scheme, or a wild night of fun.