Walter Winchell
The Most Famous Man in the World

So why if you ask Joe or Josephine Blow on the street who Walter Winchell was, all you get is a look of slack jawed incomprehensibility?

The usual explanation about why Walter's fame fell is related to politics. But close scrutiny suggests that may not be the whole story.

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