* 1946 – Damon Runyon, American writer ( b. 1884 )

Alfred Damon Runyon ( October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946 ) was an American newspaperman and author.

To New Yorkers of his generation, a " Damon Runyon character " evoked a distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde.

Damon Runyon was born as Alfred Damon Runyan to a family of newspapermen in Manhattan, Kansas.

In present-day Pueblo, Runyon Field, the Damon Runyon Repertory Theater Company and Runyon Lake are now named in his honor.

In his first New York byline, the American editor dropped the " Alfred " and the name " Damon Runyon " appeared for the first time.

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

The family plot of Damon Runyon is located at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, NY.

* After Runyon's death, his friend and fellow journalist, Walter Winchell, went on his radio program and appealed for contributions to help fight cancer, eventually establishing the “ Damon Runyon Cancer Memorial Fund ” to support scientific research into causes of, and prevention of cancer.

* The first ever telethon was hosted by Milton Berle in 1949 to raise funds for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

* Each year the Denver Press Club assigns the Damon Runyon Award to a prominent journalist.

* Damon Runyon Elementary school in Littleton, Colorado, is named after him.

* The Damon Runyon Stakes is a thoroughbred horse race run every December at Aqueduct Race Track.

* Damon Runyon Favorites ( 1942 )

* The Damon Runyon Omnibus ( 1944 )

* Damon Runyon from First to Last ( 1954 )

* A Treasury of Damon Runyon ( 1958 )

* Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs: Damon Runyon on Baseball ( 2005 ; Jim Reisler, editor )

The Damon Runyon Theater radio series dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories in weekly broadcasts running from October 1948 to September 1949 ( with reruns until 1951 ).

Lulu begins investigating Rick's death, and starts to suspect Tracy's brother Alan Quartermaine ( Stuart Damon ) and his wife Monica Quartermaine ( Leslie Charleson ) of the murder, since Monica and Rick had been lovers.

Thus, Denis Diderot's short story, " The Two Friends from Bourbonne " ( 1770 ), begins " There used to be two men here who might be called the Damon and Pythias of Bourbonne.

Their most famous sketch involved British Formula One legend Damon Hill, where Harry Enfield's character initially asks for an autograph, but as their conversation develops, Enfield begins to get angry at Hill whilst describing a hypothetical situation that he doesn't approve of, ending in the inevitable, " OI!

In 2010, Eastwood directed the drama Hereafter, again working with Matt Damon, who portrayed a psychic.

US actor Matt Damon, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his sensitive portrayal of a math genius working as a janitor in Good Will Hunting, metamorphosed into an action hero with the car-chase and gunfire-filled Jason Bourne franchise.

Hazel Albarn, originally from Lincolnshire, was a theatrical set designer for Joan Littlewood's theatre company at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London and was working on the satirical play, Mrs Wilson's Diary just before Damon was born.

At the time Damon and Affleck were meeting at Castle Rock, director Kevin Smith was working with Affleck on Mallrats and with both Affleck and Damon on Chasing Amy.

Pierre Delacroix ( whose real name is Peerless Dothan ), ( Damon Wayans ) is an uptight, Harvard University-educated black man, working for a television network known as CNS ( for " Continental Network System ").

Mattock played in The Breeders for a spell ( during a lull in Spiritualized activities in 1991, he appears on the Safari EP ) and left Spiritualized later in 1994 following the recording of Pure Phase, working as a session musician before joining Lupine Howl, he was replaced by Damon Reece.

The Last Boy Scout is a 1991 action film starring Bruce Willis as a former Secret Service agent, now working as a private detective, and Damon Wayans as a retired professional football player.

In addition to acting, Damon is also working as a producer.

After working steadily as an actress getting small and supporting roles in films throughout the 1990s, she found fame for her lead performances in big-budget films that became well-known like the fantasy film The Brothers Grimm ( 2005 ), in which she acted opposite Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, the action period film 300 ( 2007 ), portraying the role of Queen Gorgo and the adventure and biographical feature The Red Baron ( 2008 ).

Sospiri then progressed to Formula Ford, before working through to Formula 3000 in 1991, as team-mate to Damon Hill in the Middlebridge Lola T91 / 50 Cosworth.

In July 2006, it was reported that Tong would again be working with Damon Albarn.

: His gritty performance in this fight would have been considered by many observers to have justified his sobriquet of The Hard Rock from Down Under given by renowned writer and journalist, Damon Runyon.

Senior business reporter Damon Firth was awarded In 2011 Damon Frith as the overall winner of the 2011 Citi Australia & New Zealand Journalism Awards for Excellence, while BRW's web editor and IT reporter Jeanne-Vida Douglas is a multi-award winning journalist who was named the Media Connect IT Journalist of the year for 2009.

Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture.

In the late 1930s, John W. Campbell became editor of Astounding Science Fiction, and a critical mass of new writers emerged in New York City in a group called the Futurians, including Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Donald A. Wollheim, Frederik Pohl, James Blish, Judith Merril, and others.

Damon Knight, in his introduction to the paper-back edition from the New English Library edition of The Past Through Tomorrow, Vol 1., compares the story to then-current power of Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters Union.

She has been charged with the holy quest of stopping two fallen angels, Bartleby ( Ben Affleck ) and Loki ( Matt Damon ), from entering a church in New Jersey.

* Johnny Damon ( born 1973 ), outfielder who played for the New York Yankees from 2006 to 2009.

* Johnny Damon ( born 1973 ), former left fielder for the New York Yankees.

After Pirates Pryce has appeared in several large-scale productions, such as De-Lovely ( Pryce's second musical film ), a chronicle of the life of songwriter Cole Porter, for which Kevin Kline and Pryce covered a Porter song called " Blow, Gabriel, Blow ", The Brothers Grimm, Pryce's third film with Terry Gilliam, starred Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, and The New World, in which he had a cameo role as King James I.

Her first marriage broke up and she moved with her two children, Damon and Latanne, to Dallas, Texas, where she modeled for Neiman Marcus and worked as a cocktail hostess, intending to move on to New York City from there.

Jodeci's last manager was Damon " Smooth " Hart from Newark, New Jersey who is associated with their former manager Bert Padell.

Guitarist Dean Wareham, drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang had met at the Dalton School in New York City in 1981, but began playing together during their time as students at Harvard University.

Robert Coleman of the New York Daily Mirror declared, " We think Damon would have relished it as much as we did ".

* On October 19, 2009, in the ALCS Game 3 New York Yankees designated hitter Jerry Hairston replaced left fielder Johnny Damon in the outfield in the 10th inning.

Damon was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Eva ( née Sherer ) and Marvin Leonard Zonis, who was a manufacturer .< ref >

MCC comprises two campuses: the main campus in the Town of Brighton, New York and the Damon City Campus housed on the fourth floor of the Sibley Building.

* 2009: Damon Winter of The New York Times, " for his memorable array of pictures deftly capturing multiple facets of Barack Obama ’ s presidential campaign.

In his Major League Baseball career, Damon has played for the Kansas City Royals ( 1995 – 00 ), Oakland Athletics ( 2001 ), Boston Red Sox ( 2002 – 05 ), New York Yankees ( 2006 – 09 ), Detroit Tigers ( 2010 ), Tampa Bay Rays ( 2011 ) and Cleveland Indians ( 2012 ).

He is a tenth cousin, once removed, of actor Matt Damon, through a common New England ancestor.

The company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida.