He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.

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 his first New York byline, the American editor dropped the " Alfred " and the name " Damon Runyon " appeared for the first time.

" When Berman was killed in a hit on Berman's boss, Dutch Schultz, Runyon quickly assumed the role of damage control for his deceased friend, correcting erroneous press releases ( including one that stated Berman was one of Schultz's gunmen, to which Runyon replied, " Otto would have been as effective a bodyguard as a two-year-old.

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.

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.

* 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.

* In 2008, The Library of America selected Runyon ’ s story “ The Eternal Blonde ” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Crime Writing.

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.

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.

Runyon was pleased with the changes and later said, " Lady for a Day was no more my picture than Little Miss Marker, which, like the former picture, was almost entirely the result of the genius of the scenario writers and the director who worked on it.

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.

After receiving critical acclaim for her starring role in the 1942 Damon Runyon film The Big Street ( with Henry Fonda ), Ball came to the attention of MGM, which bought out her contract.

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.

Capp has credited his inspiration for vividly stylized language to early literary influences like Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and Damon Runyon, as well as Old-time radio and the Burlesque stage.

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.

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

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

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.

Sugar had been referred to as " Runyonesque " ( in reference to Damon Runyon ) by Bob Costas, and " one of the foremost historians alive ," by the Boston Globe.

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.

On the other hand, the TVA Runyon left behind was much leaner, more focused, and had begun paying down its massive debt load.

`` He's a wrong-o '', said Runyon, `` and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw the Statue of Liberty ''.

Over a year later, on May 29, 1975, the University Board of Trustees authorized a change in policy to admit " students of any race ," a move that occurred shortly before the announcement of the Supreme Court decision in Runyon v. McCrary ( 427 U. S. 160 ), which prohibited racial exclusion in private schools.

* 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.

The adjective " Runyonesque " refers to this type of character as well as to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted.

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

Runyon was also a newspaperman.

Damon Runyon was born as Alfred Damon Runyan to a family of newspapermen in Manhattan, Kansas.

The family eventually settled in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1887, where Runyon spent the rest of his youth.

In present-day Pueblo, Runyon Field, the Damon Runyon Repertory Theater Company and Runyon Lake are now named in his honor.

In 1898 Runyon enlisted in the U. S. Army to fight in the Spanish-American War.

After a notable failure in trying to organize a Colorado minor baseball league, Runyon moved to New York City in 1910.

Perhaps as confirmation, Runyon was inducted into the writers ' wing ( the J. G. Taylor Spink Award ) of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967.

Her impact in the zing commercials had led to her being considered for an excellent part in an upcoming TV series, Underwater Western Eye, a documentary-type show to be sponsored by Oatnut Grits.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

He knew her mind pretty well, by now, its quick perceptions and sympathies, its painful insistence on truth and directness, its capacity for love almost too deep for a man to reciprocate, even in part.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

This confession serves to make clear in part what is behind this sexual revolution: the craving for sensation for its own sake, the need for change, for new experiences.

The part of the mind that preserves dates and events may remonstrate, `` It could have been like that for only a little while '' ; ;

the lilacs themselves, that bloomed so prodigally but for the most part beyond our reach ; ;

Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.

The music which Lautner has composed for this episode is for the most part `` rather pretty and perfectly banal ''.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

He liked to fancy himself as a chieftain and to dress for the part.

They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.

The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.