It was remade as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, with Bette Davis in the Apple Annie role ( fused with the old woman from Runyon's short story " The Brain Goes Home "); Frank Sinatra recorded the upbeat title song ( his rendition is not used in the film ).

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 ).

Damon Runyon's short story Madame La Gimp was published in the October 1929 issue of Cosmopolitan.

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

* 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 ",

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

Runyon's fictional world is also known to the general public through the musical Guys and Dolls based on two of his stories, " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " and " Blood Pressure ".

Runyon's stories also employ occasional rhyming slang, similar to the cockney variety but native to New York ( e. g.: " Miss Missouri Martin makes the following crack one night to her: ' Well, I do not see any Simple Simon on your lean and linger.

Adapted from Runyon's stories " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " and " Blood Pressure ".

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.

Despite the wishes of the administration, she refuses to fight back or even address Runyon's charges, arguing that to answer the questions dignifies them being asked in the first place — something she does not believe.

Runyon's first goal was to treat the United States Postal Service as a business geared toward making money and pleasing customers.

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

* Lady for a Day ( 1933 )— Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title " Madame La Gimp ," the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director ( Frank Capra ), Best Actress ( May Robson ), and Best Adaptation for the Screen ( Riskin ).

Runyon based his recurring character Regret on Berman, portrayed by character actor Lynne Overman in the movie version of Runyon's story, Little Miss Marker.

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

* One block of West 45th Street ( between 8th and 9th Avenues ) in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen is named Runyon's Way.

He has good relations with Runyon and is Runyon's preference for the Vice Presidency.

" In the New York Times, A. H. Weiler noted, " Mr. Capra and his energetic troupe manage to get a fair share of laughs from Mr. Runyon's oddball guys and dolls, but their lampoon is dated and sometimes uneven and listless.

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

Runyon's largely intact steel or iron bridge with wooden stringers and decking in Bluff Dale, Texas ( 1890 ), or his weeks-earlier but ruined Barton Creek Bridge between Huckabay, Texas and Gordon, Texas ( 1889 or 1890 ).

In 1882 Runyon's father was forced to sell his newspaper, and the family moved westward.

Gambling, particularly on craps or horse races, was a common theme of Runyon's works, and he was a notorious gambler himself.

* 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.

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

The president addresses all of Congress and uses Runyon's predicament as a way to gather support for Hanson's nomination.

Runyon's aggressive cost cutting began with a promise to residential and commercial customers that TVA would not increase rates under his watch.

Although popular with homeowners and the business community, Runyon's cost cutting included massive layoffs — more than 7, 000 employees were let go on one day alone.

The Charles Men consists not of a connected narrative but of a group of short stories, each depicting a special phase of the general subject.

Will it be short stories, fiction, nonfiction, biography, poetry, children's stories, or even a book if you are really ambitious??

Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something midway between.

Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.

Extremely prolific for a few years, van Vogt wrote a large number of short stories.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

A collection of short stories for children Gallery of Children, and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

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While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

Many of Christie ’ s books and short stories both set in the Middle East and back in England have a decidedly otherworldly influence in which religious sects, sacrifices, ceremony, and seances play a part.

Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

* Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories ( short stories collected posthumously, also published as Miss Marple's Final Cases, but only six of the eight stories actually feature Miss Marple ) ( written between 1939 and 1954, published 1979 )

Alcott asked Niles if he would publish a book of short stories by his daughter ; instead, he suggested she write a book about girls.

His mother Irene Worley (" Lolly ") was a writer of short stories who published under the name " Mary James ".

Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977 ) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories.

" The Swedish playwright August Strindberg attacked the play in his volume of short stories Getting Married ( 1884 ).