# OnCo record walter-winchell (person). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/people/walter-winchell/>
  a schema:Person ;
  onco:kind "person" ;
  schema:identifier "walter-winchell" ;
  schema:name "Walter Winchell"@en ;
  schema:description "When his friend Damon Runyon died of throat cancer in 1946 he asked his radio audience for a penny, a nickel, a dime or a dollar; the fund he started has invested over $490 million and backed more than 4,000 scientists."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/people/walter-winchell/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Winchell> ;
  schema:citation <https://www.damonrunyon.org/our-strategy/our-history> ;
  onco:tag "public-figure", "donor" ;
  schema:jobTitle "Broadcaster whose 1946 radio appeal founded the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/damon-runyon/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-funding-allocation/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-workforce/> .