Television: Review

In a weak moment Gossipist Walter Winchell confided to his readers: "The reason I talk fast is that if I talk slowly people will be able to hear what I say and find out how dull and unimportant it really is." But for his return to TV last week on ABC's filmed crime series, The Walter Winchell File, the columnist-turned-actor slowed down his Teletype voice; what he said was still unimportant but, thanks in considerable part to a good script by ex-New York Daily Mirror Reporter Adrian Spies, never dull. The story concerned a psychopathic killer, who haunts a frightened cop,...

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