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 short stories are told in the first person by a protagonist who is never named, and whose role is unclear ; he knows many gangsters and does not appear to have a job, but he does not admit to any criminal involvement, and seems to be largely a bystander.

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

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.

* 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 ".

" 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.

" 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Runyon's World War I draft card

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.

Knight also expressed misgivings about van Vogt's politics, noting that his stories almost invariably present absolute monarchy in a favorable light.

Christie's stories are also known for their taut atmosphere and strong psychological suspense, developed from the deliberately slow pace of her prose.

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.

It has been said that twelve cases related in The Labours of Hercules ( 1947 ) must refer to a different retirement, but the fact that Poirot specifically says that he intends to grow marrows indicates that these stories also take place before Roger Ackroyd, and presumably Poirot closed his agency once he had completed them.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

* 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 )

) As well as portraying Miss Marple on television, Hickson also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audio books.

Elfhame or Elfland, is portrayed in a variety of ways in these ballads and stories, most commonly as mystical and benevolent, but also at times as sinister and wicked.

Invoking stories of the early life of the Prophet Muhammad, Ibn Yasin preached that conquest was a necessary addendum to Islamicization, that it was not enough to merely adhere to God's law, but necessary to also destroy opposition to it.

Vinge's former wife, Joan D. Vinge, has also written stories in the Zones of Thought universe, based on his notes.

Niven also occasionally refers to arcologies in his Known Space series, particularly in the stories involving Gil Hamilton, or the Pierson's Puppeteers, whose arcologies are enormous ( The smallest were cubes a mile in height, length and width.

Anglo-American traditional music also includes a variety of broadside ballads, humorous stories and tall tales, and disaster songs regarding mining, shipwrecks and murder.

Many stories are also told about him in various collections of sayings of the Desert Fathers.

He also wants to instruct the reader by spiritual example, and to entertain, and to the latter end he adds stories about many of the places and people about which he wrote.

Further themes are also present: the " sovereign freedom of Yahweh " ( God does not always do what is expected of him ); the " satirisation of foreign kings " ( who consistently underestimate Israel and Yahweh ); the concept of the " flawed agent " ( judges who are not adequate to the task before them ) and the disunity of the Israelite community ( which gathers pace as the stories succeed one another ).

This comb detail is also related to the centuries-old traditional romantic Irish story that, if you ever see a comb lying on the ground in Ireland, you must never pick it up, or the banshees ( or mermaids — stories vary ), having placed it there to lure unsuspecting humans, will spirit such gullible humans away.

He also turned to prose and wrote several autobiographical stories, notably The Childhood of Luvers and Safe Conduct.

They were also published in PC Plus magazine for a short time, and several books of the stories have also been released.

Multi-sited ethnography may also follow ethnic groups in diaspora, stories or rumours that appear in multiple locations and in multiple time periods, metaphors that appear in multiple ethnographic locations, or the biographies of individual people or groups as they move through space and time.

Nāgas were also characters in other well-known legends and stories depicted in Khmer art, such as the churning of the Ocean of Milk, the legend of the Leper King as depicted in the bas-reliefs of the Bayon, and the story of Mucalinda, the serpent king who protected the Buddha from the elements.

Cyberpunk stories have also been seen as fictional forecasts of the evolution of the Internet.