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Chaffee, Harvard's anchor man, caught up with and passed the tail skier for Dartmouth's "B" team to give the Crimson sixth place among the colleges entered. His time of 39 minutes and 35 seconds was the third best performance of the day. Olympian Larry Damon finished first, one minute and five seconds ahead of Chaffee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiing Team Finishes 10th in Hanover Relay | 1/19/1965 | See Source »

...Damon Runyon died of cancer in 1946, after having contributed some 90 million words to the newspaper record of his time. Much of this prodigious output appeared in Hearst's old New York American, where Runyon in scribed such transitory events as prize fights, ball games, murder trials and wars. He may well have been the most-read U.S. journalist of his day, says Biographer Edwin P. Hoyt in A Gentle man of Broadway (Little, Brown & Co.; $6.95); but Hoyt argues convincingly that Reporter Runyon was also the most misread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: The Sentimental Cynic | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

Early & Alone. A gambling friend once told Runyon that the odds were 9 to 5 against everything in life. Alfred Damon Runyan,-as he was born in Manhattan, Kans., faced worse odds than that. His father was a sometime newspaper publisher reduced to typesetting and the bottle. His mother died when he was seven. Before he was out of his teens he was both a newspaperman and a drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: The Sentimental Cynic | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

Also, Isabel Canet, a marine zoologist formerly director of the Fisheries Research Center in Havana, Cubs; Selma T. Damon, a dentist and the wife of Albert Damon, associate professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health; and Mildred G. Goldberger, a mathematician who plans to study the teaching of elementary school mathematics...

Author: By Mary ELLEN Gale, | Title: 'Cliffe Names 32 Women To New Institute | 5/30/1962 | See Source »

...reglaze of a soggy old (1933) candied apple called Lady for a Day, Bette Davis, 53, finds heavier slogging on the comeback trail. She is cast as Apple Annie, one of those studiously shabby, relentlessly endearing sentimendicants who are patrolling the stretch of Broadway that is running through Damon Runyon's brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Acting Their Age | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

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