Much to Damon Runyon's amazement, as well as my own, I got along splendidly with the Hetman ; ;

* 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.

* Damon Runyon's Blue Plate Special ( 1934 )

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 ).

In 1950 he contributed the Introduction to a Constable & Co omnibus edition of Damon Runyon's " stories of the bandits of Broadway ", which was republished by Penguin Books in 1990 as On Broadway.

The rough-and-tumble days on the West Side figure prominently in Damon Runyon's stories and the childhood home of Marvel Comics ' Daredevil.

Guys and Dolls was conceived by producers Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin as an adaptation of Damon Runyon's short stories.

Critics praised the musical's faithfulness to Damon Runyon's style and characterizations.

* Rothstein is referred to as " The Brain " in several of Damon Runyon's short stories, including a fictional version of his death in " The Brain Goes Home ".

The drink features prominently in Damon Runyon's short story " Dancing Dan's Christmas ",

" The first book publication of Damon Runyon's story, " Little Miss Marker ," was in a 1934 collection entitled Damon Runyon's Blue Plate Special.

Danning, who was Jewish, was nicknamed " Harry The Horse " for Damon Runyon's Broadway character.

" The people on that show ," Burrows once said about Duffy's Tavern, " were New York mugs, nice mugs, sweet mugs, and like ( Damon ) Runyon's mugs they all talked like ladies and gentlemen.

* There is a character called " Ignaz the Wolf " in author Damon Runyon's short story Too Much Pep.

* " The Enemy " ( short story ), a short story by Damon Knight

* You're Another, a 1955 short story by Damon Knight, is about a man who discovers that he is an actor in a " livie ", a live-action show that is viewed by billions of people in the future.

Bassist Alex James later summarised, " After being the People's Hero, Damon was the People's Prick for a short period ... basically, he was a loser – very publicly.

The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the short story Madame La Gimp by Damon Runyon.

The screenplay was written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, and Gladys Hellman after a short story of the same name by Damon Runyon.

Bassist Alex James later summarised, " After being the People's Hero, Damon was the People's Prick for a short period ... basically, he was a loser – very publicly.

Roy's obsession with an idea implanted by an alien intelligence, his construction of the model, and his gradual loss of contact with his wife, mimic the events in the short story " Dulcie and Decorum " ( 1955 ) by Damon Knight.

Damon Knight's short story " To Serve Man " ( previously adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone ) had a similar theme of deceptively friendly aliens secretly cultivating humans for food.

It is based on " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " and " Blood Pressure ", two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably " Pick the Winner ".

" is a science fiction short story by Damon Knight.

* Cabin Boy, a short story by Damon Knight

During his tenure, the magazine's circulation never sold as well as he'd hoped, even with the assistance of Larry Shaw and a short tenure by Damon Knight as editor of the magazine.

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.

However, it turned out they weren't hired to be anchors, but as errand boys to do the anchors ' bidding, causing the brothers to consider going back to the show, which was currently being hosted by then New York Yankees outfielder Johnny Damon ( a Cheap Seats fan ) and the " Score Settler ," a character from the series, as the apparent new hosts of the show, but the stint was short when the Score Settler reacted furiously after Damon stole one of his lines.

The story is based on the short story " To Serve Man ", written by Damon Knight.

" The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " is a short story by Damon Runyon telling of the improbable-but eventually triumphant-love between an inveterate gambler ( Sky Masterson ) and a missionary girl ( the Miss Sarah Brown of the title ).

The screenplay by Hal Kanter and Harry Tugend is based on the screenplay Lady for a Day by Robert Riskin, which was adapted from the Damon Runyon short story " Madame La Gimp ".

* The title of Damon Knight's 1955 short story " Dulcie and Decorum " is an ironic play on the first three words of the phrase ; the story is about computers that induce humans to kill themselves.

Eastwood's 30th directorial outing came with Invictus, a film based on the story of the South African team at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, with Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, Matt Damon as rugby team captain François Pienaar and Grant L. Roberts as Ruben Kruger.

" Damon Knight found the novel " a typical Heinlein story.

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 then joined Glenn Ford and Ann-Margret for the Frank Capra film A Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ) ( a remake of Capra's 1933 film, Lady for a Day ), based on a story by Damon Runyon.

The title of Damon Knight's story To Serve Man is a double entendre, it can mean " to perform a service for humanity " or " to serve a human as food ".

Castle Rock Entertainment president Rob Reiner later urged them to drop the thriller aspect of the story and to focus the relationship between Will Hunting ( Damon ) and his psychologist ( Williams ).

The 1997 drama film Good Will Hunting follows the story of autodidact Will Hunting, played by Matt Damon.

The movie Invictus starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon depicts this story.

He later co-wrote the story and was an associate producer for the movie Celtic Pride, starring Damon Wayans and Dan Aykroyd.

In In Search of Wonder, Damon Knight argues that the story is a symbolic representation of fertilization of a female ovum by a sperm, and that the protagonist Garrard is the sperm.

James Blish ( quoted by Damon Knight ) said about Knight's interpretation of his story:

The second " Tessie " — which featured backing vocals from Red Sox players Johnny Damon, Bronson Arroyo, and Lenny DiNardo, Red Sox Vice President of Public Affairs Dr. Charles Steinberg ; and Boston Herald sportswriter Jeff Horrigan ( who co-wrote the new lyrics with the Dropkick Murphys ) — has become a theme song for the Red Sox and tells the story of the Royal Rooters singing the original " Tessie ".

Pienaar is portrayed by Matt Damon in the movie Invictus, released in December 2009, which focuses on the story of the 1995 World Cup.

Outfielder Johnny Damon said of Boone's home run: " If we do advance to the World Series and win, it's a better story that we went through New York.