FAY BARBARA KING (1889 - ?). A circa late 1920s/early 1930s original ink on paper drawing by the Jazz Age cartoonist. Signed: Fay King lower left. Titled: "When Walter Winchell Was Just 'A Blessed Event.'" Depicting Winchell as a beribboned infant watching a flirting policeman and maid. 6 3/8" x 8 3/4." Condition: Good. Winchell famously coined the term "Blessed Event" as a blind item euphemism for pregnancy to avoid libel. The term became entwined with Winchell and the Stork Club (The Blessed Event Room), and was the title of a 1932 Broadway play based on Winchell. PROVENANCE: THE HAROLD A. LAYER COLLECTION. From The Walter Winchell Files, Butterfield & Butterfield, 1990/91.