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What was important about Walter Winchell's style?
He was known for an innovative style of gossipy staccato news briefs, jokes and Jazz Age slang.
Why didn't Schultz like Walter Winchell?
Winchell's casual writing style famously earned him the ire of mobster Dutch Schultz, who confronted him at New York's Cotton Club and publicly lambasted him for using the phrase pushover.

Question: Did walter's style offend anyone?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Walter Winchell's style offend anyone?