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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The confirmation hearings begin in Washington, D. C., and Runyon, who chairs the committee, quickly addresses Hanson's alleged sexual imbroglio.

A young Democrat who allies with Runyon to defeat the nominee, putting him in conflict with the President.

Omaha started second favorite for the Kentucky Derby, with his supporters including Damon Runyon, who tipped the colt despite decribing him as " a big, leggy, green thing that seems to invariably get into a lot of trouble ".

In addition, Letson claimed he was given information by way of Kerry's crewmen who accompanied him to the clinic, but neither Zaladonis nor Runyon accompanied Kerry, nor has any crewman who was on the nearby Swift Boat supported this claim.

A three-block long street that extends from Runyon St. is called Tillinghast Street, believed named after Philip Tillinghast, who moved there in 1854 or early 1855 with his family of seven children from Manhattan.

Mark and his girlfriend ( Kristen Wilson ) are hung up over moving in together ; Runyon is hung up over his old girlfriend Kathryn ( Dana Wheeler-Nicholson ), who has moved to Los Angeles ; the womanizing Josh is hung up on Phil's sister, Gina ( Paige Turco ), who has an abusive husband ; Phil, who is married with children, finds himself hung up on an English interior designer ( Kristin Scott Thomas ).

KUSF is currently managed by alumnus Steve Runyon, who was also the student manager of the original AM station.

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.

Runyon frequently contributed sports poems to the American on boxing and baseball themes, and also wrote numerous short stories and essays.

" 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.

* 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.

* Runyon on Broadway ( 1950 ; introduction by E. C. Bentley )

* Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs: Damon Runyon on Baseball ( 2005 ; Jim Reisler, editor )

Damon Runyon Theatre aired on CBS-TV from 1955-56.

* Booknotes interview ( December 29, 1991 ) with Jimmy Breslin on his book, Damon Runyon: A Life

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.

Students zoned to Cuellar and Runyon continue on to Fred F. Florence Middle School ( 7-8 ) and W. W. Samuell High School ( 9-12 ).

In 1943 he played Billy Oldham on Joe and Ethel Turp, based on Damon Runyon stories.

This led to his next musical, Guys and Dolls ( 1950 ), based on the stories of Damon Runyon, and again produced by Feuer and Martin.

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.

Based on the stories, The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown and Blood Pressure by Damon Runyon