* 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 ).

* The Damon Runyon Theatre – audio files of the complete series at the Internet Archive

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.

: Artists Theatre Project presented a production in Phoenix at Soul Invictus for a six week run, with two alternating casts: Dusty Goltz as Jon, Kim Jeffries as Susan and Damon J. Bolling as Michael ; and Sam Wilkes as Jon, Jerome Lowe as Michael and Carly Vernon as Susan.

In 1949, it was dramatized on radio as part of a program called Damon Runyon Theatre.

The Coach House company, which owned the Galaxy Theatre, approached the band to release the recordings as a collected album on their independent label Coach House Records but the band was already in discussions with other labels and agreed on a version of the CD, with album cover artwork and graphic design by Damon Kidwell, which would expressly not include a bar code for retail sale.

* Damon Runyon Theatre ( 1955 )

In the show which aired on June 5, 2007, Kimmel sent his sidekick Guillermo to the Ocean's Thirteen premiere to interview Matt Damon, though when he started the interview, he said that they were out of time, at which point Damon assumed that Kimmel sent him.

In a segment that aired on January 31, 2008, Kimmel's then long-time girlfriend Sarah Silverman appeared on the show and announced, via a music video, that she had been " Fucking Matt Damon ".

Also, the originally aired version of another sketch unrelated to the Super Bowl special (" Men on Fitness " – February 7, 1993 ) included a simulation of Damon Wayans ' character Blaine enjoying receiving facial ejaculation while being sprayed with a water bottle.

Former British world champion Damon Hill aired doubts over Button's hopes to be a championship contender at Honda over the coming season, saying, " if he is serious ... he has to get himself in a car that is a championship contender.

The season was produced by Touchstone Television ( now ABC Studios ), Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions and was aired on the ABC Network in the U. S. The executive producers were co-creator J. J. Abrams, co-creator Damon Lindelof, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender and Carlton Cuse with Jesse Alexander and Jeff Pinkner serving as executive consultants.

The show was aired on Saturday mornings and was based on creator Damon Wayans ' own life.

The season was produced by Touchstone Television ( now ABC Studios ), Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions and was aired on the ABC Network in the U. S. The executive producers were co-creator J. J. Abrams, co-creator Damon Lindelof, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender and Carlton Cuse.

* Booknotes interview ( December 29, 1991 ) with Jimmy Breslin on his book, Damon Runyon: A Life

* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.

Peers such as L. Sprague DeCamp and Damon Knight have commented critically on Heinlein's portrayal of incest and pedophilia in a lighthearted and even approving manner.

Writer Damon Runyon allegedly based the character Sky Masterson, the gambler-hero of " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " ( on which the musical " Guys and Dolls " is based ), on Thompson.

United States courts of appeals | U. S. circuit judges Robert Katzmann, Damon Keith, and Sonia Sotomayor at a 2004 exhibit on the Fourteenth Amendment, Thurgood Marshall, and Brown v. Board of Education.

Eisner said that on one occasion a man who Eisner described as " a Mob type straight out of Damon Runyon, complete with pinkie ring, broken nose, black shirt, and white tie, who claimed to have ' exclusive distribution rights for all Brooklyn " asked Eisner to draw Tijuana bibles for $ 3 a page.

Blur's work, along with many more minor Britpop bands, have been cited as particularly reminiscent of 1970s Wire at various points, with Graham Coxon and Damon Albarn both speaking of the band's influence on Blur.

In his " Books " column for F & SF, Damon Knight listed The Martian Chronicles on his top-ten science fiction books of the 1950s.

Damon " Tuba Gooding Jr ." Bryson from The Roots plays a Sousaphone on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

During the tour, frontman Damon Albarn began to resent American culture and found the need to comment on that culture's influence seeping into Britain.

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.

Other musicians, and at least one comedian, who have sung Numan's praises in recent years include Beck, Grant Nicholas, Tricky, Damon Albarn & Matt Sharp, Jarvis Cocker, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, Noel Fielding and Afrika Bambaataa, who spoke of the influence Numan's music had on the fledgling American DJ scene: " In the late 70s and early 80s Gary had the rhythms that DJs wanted to get hold of and people waited for his records on the dance floor.

With the departures of Boni Boyer, Sheila E., the horns, and Cat, Prince brought in Rosie Gaines on keys, drummer Michael Bland, and dancing trio The Game Boyz ( Tony M., Kirky J., and Damon Dickson ).

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

Onobrychis species are used as food plants by the caterpillars of some Lepidoptera species, such as the case-bearer moth Coleophora colutella ( recorded on O. saxatilis ) and the Damon Blue ( Polyommatus damon ) butterfly.

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.

United States courts of appeals | U. S. circuit judges Robert A. Katzmann, Damon J. Keith, and Sonia Sotomayor at a 2004 exhibit on the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution | Fourteenth Amendment, Thurgood Marshall, and Brown v. Board of Education

Around this time, Del Naja, with Davidge decanted into Ridge Farm studio with friends and band members of Lupine Howl ( made up of former members of the band Spiritualized, including Damon Reece who went on to be Massive Attack's permanent drummer and one of two live drummers ) towards a fourth Massive Attack LP, taking things even further into an experimental, psychedelic rock direction.

Del Naja and Damon ALbarn with the help of United Visual Artists campaigned against Trident nuclear sub renewal aboard the Arctic Sunrise on the Thames.

He also played Damon Warwick, father of James Warwick, on the daytime soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful.