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"Could you repeat the question?"
1920's Reporter Guy vs. John McEnroe 🎾 🎸
https://pca.st/episode/66a2d7fe-1e8a-4175-8db6-9109178c013d
#TomGribble #ScoopsCallahan #Sports #Journalism #JohnMcEnroe #PhilMickelson #GreggPopovich #JohnIsner #DrewBrees #TheTicket #Humor #1920sReporterGuy #DallasOpen #BlindLemonJefferson #BillTilden #Tennis #WalterWinchell
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Quoted Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith by (Naugatuck Daily News)
If opening up your veins at the typewriter and bleeding means something with respect to writing, then it must surely mean all the more when typing with a red ribbon on a Remington 666 typewriter which gives the type slugs the appearance of being covered in blood.Red Smith was asked if turning out a daily column wasn't quite a chore. ... "Why no," dead-panned Red. "You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed."
---Walter Winchell, April 6, 1949 in the Naugatuck Daily News, p4, column 5 -
The 20th century’s biggest gossip columnist #WalterWinchell was very influential for both good and bad reasons.
Of his biggest contributions in journalism were #Winchellism and #Winchellese - using clever phrases in attack journalism:
…An etymologist of his day said, "there are plenty of ... expressions which he has fathered and which are now current among his readers and imitators and constitute a flash language called Winchellese.