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Demagoguery is a staple of boxing and a specialty of King's, a wild-maned former Cleveland numbers runner who served four years in the Ohio Penitentiary for killing an associate. King got into boxing with a lovable little Damon Runyon-type character named Don Elbaum, who once made a flourish of presenting Sugar Ray Robinson the first gloves he ever wore at Madison Square Garden; Robinson was moved to tears, until both gloves turned out to be righthanded. "Confusion is a promoter's plight and his ally," says King, who is co-promoting the show with Sam Glass...
...Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist whose wry wit and pursuit of what he called "the pure crystal stream of the declarative sentence" made him the most influential and admired sportswriter of our time; in Stamford, Conn. Smith, in the great line of such sportswriter-debunkers as Ring Lardner, Westbrook Pegler and Damon Runyon, kept his subjects at arm's length. "These are still games little boys play," he said. "The future of civilization is not at stake." He gave a strong hint of what was to become his skewed, lifelong approach to a story on his first sports assignment...
...season. Perhaps he will learn the jury's verdict this week. His name is Rick Kuhn, and except for the eyes, he seems younger than 26. He sits at the defense table alone, but in the company of four other defendants, men with even older eyes and Damon Runyon-sounding names, including convicted extortionist Jimmy ("the Gent") Burke. The testimony has been a seamy accounting of gamblers, kids, bribes and beating Harvard by "less than twelve...
...people said they'd stopped using Nestle products, and a lot of people said they'd stop using them from now on." Damon Kurowski '85, another coordinator of the coalition, said yesterday...
...Crimson this season. Jumping off to a 3-0 lead in the first quarter, the Elis failed to hold their advantage, and in the fourth the score stood knotted at ten. With the final seconds ticking away on the clock, Hall whipped the ball past Yale goaltender Allen Damon to give the Crimson an 11-10 victory in the season finale...