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...pathetic heavyweights he fed in the forlorn hope of some day owning a champ, Runyon was a hokum-laden, horseplaying, teetotaling, coffee-drinking (up to 40 cups a day, some said) legend. It was a legend clad neatly and gaudily in $200 suits, loud Charvet ties, studs and cuff links made out of gold pieces-and shoes at $50 a pair, broken in for him by the late Hype Igoe, a sports scribe who also wore size 5B. Like most rich Broadwayites, Runyon commuted from Manhattan to Miami, and could "remember when Miami Beach was so quiet you could hear...
...would ever be, his world still a sharkless sea of love, and every mistake forgiven. But he was already being equipped for man's estate: from the mountain Lapps he had a gift of a shield, and from Cousin Count Folke Bernadotte he had a pair of gold cuff links...
...thing, White House correspondents were agreed: under Harry Truman's administration, the presidential press conferences had become a mess. The fumbles, the off-the-cuff, foot-in-mouth answers had made news all right-but of a kind that needlessly and repeatedly embarrassed the U.S., if not its President...
Then he turned around and rested his other elbow on the mantel. He shook his drink a little, knocked an ash off from his cigarette into the fire place. He looked down at the fine crease of is grey flannel trousers, moving his foot until the cuff rested properly on the laces of his shoe. He tugged at his shirt a bit until the cuff made the correct distance from the end of is coat sleeve. He measured the distance with a crooked thumb. Then he moved his head up and down until his shirt collar fell snugly beneath...
That decided him. Breathing fire, he leaped into the race for the governorship, tirelessly stumped the state in a piped vest and his "crapshooters coat" (tight, double-breasted grey, with black cuff & collar bindings and pearl buttons). His platform: a thorough statewide house cleaning...