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.

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

Runyon was also a newspaperman.

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

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.

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

" 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.

* The first ever telethon was hosted by Milton Berle in 1949 to raise funds for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

* 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.

* The house in Manhattan, Kansas, where Runyon was born is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The screenplay was written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, and Gladys Hellman after a short story of the same name by Damon Runyon.

" 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.

Runyon was known for the unique dialect he employed in his stories, mixing highly formal language and slang.

A perennial U. S. Open contender ( with seven top-10 finishes and second place in 1927 and 1936 ), Cooper was nicknamed " Lighthorse Harry " by Damon Runyon for his quick pace of play in winning the inaugural Los Angeles Open in 1926. Cooper played in the inaugural Masters Tournament and placed second there in 1936 and 1938.

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.

A memorial was held at the El Rey Theatre shortly after his death, and a small gathering of family and friends offered his ashes to the earth at Runyon Canyon Park in the Hollywood Hills.

He competed in the ring for a time under the name " Hell's Kitchen Bill-Bill " ( a " hillbilly " reference which was suggested to him by the writer Damon Runyon ) but eventually settled on the moniker of " Stone Mountain ".

Anticipating that Hanson would deem her personal past " none of anyone's business ," Runyon starts rumors in the media saying that the sexual escapade in college was done in exchange for money and favors, making it prostitution.

Oldman and the film's producer, Urbanski, reportedly accused the DreamWorks studio and director Rod Lurie of editing the original film to make it more Democrat-biased, mainly by making the Runyon character less sympathetic than was originally intended.

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.

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 ).

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

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.

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.

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 President meets with Runyon, informing him he will not choose Hanson as Vice President.

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

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

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 ".

Runyon was appointed United States Postmaster General in 1992, at a time when the postal service was struggling with high costs and a poor reputation for service.

While the sport has its origins in the banked-track roller skating marathons of the 1930s, Leo Seltzer and Damon Runyon are credited with the basic evolution of the sport to its initial competitive form.

However, even with these new techniques, the Runyon classification is still sometimes used to organize the mycobacteria into categories.

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.

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.

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 ).

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

Runyon performed the narration, including a closing tag for each episode that memorably began with an astonished " Well-l-l-l-l ." According to Orkin, " Jim was incredible, he would adlib an ending for each episode.

Damon Runyon called it, " Rich funny stuff, loaded with laughs.

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.

After his farewell tour of America in 1937, the McCormacks deeded the estate back to Carman Runyon expecting to return to the estate at a later date.

In later years, Merrill described his tenor friend as " an original, right out of the pages of a Damon Runyon story.