After Ellen Runyon died of the effects of her own drinking problems, Runyon and Patrice married ; that marriage ended in 1946 when Patrice left Runyon for a younger man.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ".

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.

Runyon Heights is a historically African American middle-class neighborhood in northwestern Yonkers, New York, US.

The trial at the Long Island City Courthouse was covered by such figures as Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Aimee Semple McPherson, D. W. Griffith, Damon Runyon, Will Durant and, a year before her own death from cancer, Nora Bayes.

The musical additionally borrows characters and story elements from a few other Runyon stories, most notably " Pick The Winner.

He worked for various newspapers in the Rocky Mountain area ; at one of those, the spelling of his last name was changed from " Runyan " to " Runyon ," a change he let stand.

* In the mid-1930s, Runyon persuaded promoter Leo Seltzer to formally change his Roller Derby spectacle from a marathon roller-skating race into a full-contact team sport, an innovation that was eventually revived in a DIY spirit seven decades later.

* Damon Runyon from First to Last ( 1954 )

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 Theatre aired on CBS-TV from 1955-56.

Riskin's version deviated from the original Runyon story primarily in that it linked its central character and a number of plot developments to millions of Americans who were suffering from an economic crisis as a result of the onset of the Great Depression.

" The show used their CHP technical advisor, Officer Frank Runyon, to keep the actor sober: " I was told to keep that son of a bitch away from a bottle.

In 1946, following the death from cancer of his close friend and fellow writer Damon Runyon, Winchell appealed to his radio audience for contributions to fight the disease.

This limit on freedom of association results from Section 1981 of Title 42 of the United States Code, as balanced against the First Amendment in the 1976 decision of Runyon v. McCrary.

: His gritty performance in this fight would have been considered by many observers to have justified his sobriquet of The Hard Rock from Down Under given by renowned writer and journalist, Damon Runyon.

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 ".

Their exploits were loudly and highly praised in the new " gee whiz " style of sports journalism that was emerging ; champions of this style of writing included the legendary writers Grantland Rice and Damon Runyon in the U. S. Sports literature presented a new form of heroism departing from the traditional models of masculinity.

McCormack also bought Runyon Canyon in Hollywood in 1930 from Carman Runyon.

Runyon, a serious-minded technical manager, believed that TVA's management had too many distractions from TVA's wide-ranging activities, so he ordered non-essential business units closed.

Runyon, during his time at the U. S. P. S., often decided to distance himself from management when he traveled.

* from the south end to US 441 south of Runyon

* US 441 from south of Runyon to the end of the first section, east of St.

* 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.

Robinson donated all of his earnings for this fight, except for $ 1 dollar, to the Damon Runyon cancer fund.

He also was the father of ( with Winifred Kingston ) late radio actress Estelle " Dustine " Runyon ( 1925-1983 ).

Orkin's Chickenman series was part of the late morning show hosted by Jim Runyon.

* 1946 – Damon Runyon, American writer ( b. 1884 )

Alfred Damon Runyon ( October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946 ) was an American newspaperman and author.

* Damon Runyon ( 1884 – 1946 ).

* 1880 – Damon Runyon, American writer ( d. 1946 )

* October 4 – Damon Runyon, American writer ( d. 1946 )

* Damon Runyon ( 1884 – 1946 ), newspaperman and writer