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Runyon and Heights
* Runyon Heights Improvement Association ( Yonkers. gov )

Runyon and is
The family plot of Damon Runyon is located at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, NY.
* 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.
* The house in Manhattan, Kansas, where Runyon was born is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Runyon almost totally avoids the past tense ( it is thought to be used once, in the short story " The Lily of St Pierre ", and once in " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " ), and makes little use of the future tense, using the present for both.
There is an homage to Runyon that makes use of this peculiarity ( Chronic Offender by Spider Robinson ) which involves a time machine.
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.
The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the short story Madame La Gimp by Damon Runyon.
The character is meant to be Mafia accountant Otto Berman, best friend of writer Damon Runyon.
The holding of Runyon is that the defendant private schools were free to express and teach their views, such as white separatism, but could not discriminate on the basis of race in the provision of services to the general public.
Some of the most relevant Supreme Court case law on this is as follows: Runyon v. McCrary, 427 U. S. 160 ( 1976 ); Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U. S. 205 ( 1972 ); Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U. S. 510 ( 1925 ); Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U. S. 390 ( 1923 ).
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 ".
Richard Watts of the New York Post said " Guys and Dolls is just what it should be to celebrate the Runyon spirit ... is filled with the salty characters and richly original language sacred to the memory of the late Master ".
Standing in her way is Republican Congressman Shelley Runyon ( Gary Oldman ) of Illinois, who believes she is unqualified for the position, and backs Hathaway for the nod.
Hathaway is arrested and Runyon is disgraced because he vouched for Hathaway's integrity just hours earlier.
Runyon is a conservative Republican who leads the attack on the nominee, namely by leaking rumors on the Internet, overseeing accusations of prostitution, and challenging the nominee's liberal position on abortion.
He has good relations with Runyon and is Runyon's preference for the Vice Presidency.
The film has also been the subject of controversy, which revolves around the fact that the President and Senator Hanson, the primary protagonists, are both Democrats, and the primary antagonist is the Republican Runyon.
However, the most enthusiastic and romantically inspired figure in the field of evocation / invocation arts and overall a devotee of the Western mystical tradition is known today by the name of Caroll " Poke " Runyon, the Grand Magus of O. T. A.
However, even with these new techniques, the Runyon classification is still sometimes used to organize the mycobacteria into categories.
" Runyon also stated that he is " 100 percent certain " that no one on the boat fired a grenade launcher.

Runyon and American
* 1946 – Damon Runyon, American writer ( b. 1884 )
Alfred Damon Runyon ( October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946 ) was an American newspaperman and author.
In his first New York byline, the American editor dropped the " Alfred " and the name " Damon Runyon " appeared for the first time.
Runyon frequently contributed sports poems to the American on boxing and baseball themes, and also wrote numerous short stories and essays.
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.
* In 2008, The Library of America selected Runyon ’ s story “ The Eternal Blonde ” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Crime Writing.
* 1880 – Damon Runyon, American writer ( d. 1946 )
** Damon Runyon, American writer ( b. 1880 )
* October 4 – Damon Runyon, American writer ( d. 1946 )
She won The Damon Runyon Award for outstanding contributions to journalism in 2000, and became the first Mary Alice Davis Lectureship speaker ( sponsored by the School of Journalism and the Center for American History ) at The University of Texas at Austin in 2005.
Marvin Travis Runyon ( September 16, 1924 – May 3, 2004 ) was an American business executive.
When his rags to riches story gets out, the sportswriter Damon Runyon dubs him " The Cinderella Man ", and before long Braddock comes to represent the hopes and aspirations of the American public struggling with the Depression.

Runyon and New
To New Yorkers of his generation, a " Damon Runyon character " evoked a distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde.
After a notable failure in trying to organize a Colorado minor baseball league, Runyon moved to New York City in 1910.
Runyon had promised her in Mexico that, if she would complete the education he paid for her, he would find her a dancing job in New York.
Runyon died in New York City from throat cancer in late 1946, at age 66.
Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture.
* William Nelson Runyon ( 1871 – 1931 ), Acting Governor of New Jersey from 1919 to 1920.
* Damon Runyon begins working as a journalist in New York City.
The land was sold to CIM by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation of New York and Barlow Respiratory Hospital of Los Angeles.
A member of the New York nightlife, he met and befriended writer Damon Runyon.
Damon Runyon worked briefly for the Post in 1905 – 06 before gaining fame as a writer in New York.

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