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Joseph Michael Valachi looks a bit like a Damon Runyon gangster-the tough guy who really is all heart. Short (5 ft. 6 in.) and bandy-legged, he could pass as one of those middle-aged truck drivers who spend their days oiT lifting weights at the local gym, then go home and cook up a dinner for the wife and kids-"Joe's Special Recipe for Spaghetti Sauce and Meatballs...
Died. Earl Sande, 69, famed jockey, who won the Kentucky Derby three times, the Belmont Stakes five times in the 1920s and early '30s; of heart disease; in Jacksonville, Ore. Celebrated as that "handy guy Sande" by Damon Runyon, the spruce, sharp-tongued rider earned a place in sport's pantheon alongside Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Bobby Jones. He won 967 races and nearly $3,000,000 in purses before retiring...
Soon tragedy shatters Waugh's invented cosmos. He throws triple ones three times in a row, and the "Extraordinary Occurrences Chart" demands that the next batter shall die. But the next man up is Damon Rutherford, most brilliant rookie pitcher in the history of the association. Waugh loves Damon like a son, but the necessary laws that hold the cosmos together cannot be broken. Damon Rutherford dies...
...irresponsible, cheats with the dice, finagles the charts, juggles the schedule. He throws his cosmos into chaos. In the real world, he gets fired by his employer. As he drinks his troubles away, the people of the association comfort him. In the end, the players celebrate the death of Damon Rutherford with a passion-play re-enactment of the game. The cosmos no longer has any direction; the players are on their own. And there is the doomed Damon Rutherford, holding the baseball aloft, "hard and white and . . . beautiful." He says, "It's not a trial...
...Died. Damon Runyon Jr., 49, journeyman journalist (recently city editor of Washington's weekly Examiner), who labored in the shadow cast by his famous father, in 1954 wrote a bitter memoir (Father's Footsteps) about Damon Sr.'s destructive egomania; by his own hand (he leaped from a bridge); in Washington...