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Robbed: ex-Showgirl Patrice Amati Runyon Coffin, ex-wife of the late Damon Runyon, and her husband Richard Coffin, New Bedford printer; of some $200,000 (her estimate) worth of jewels...
...Book Club (sponsored by Marshall Field's Pocket Books, Inc.) set out a year ago to wean youngsters away from the comics. As more suitable fare for growing minds, a committee of teachers and librarians picked a list of 50 books ranging from Shakespeare's Tragedies to Damon Runyon Favorites. Last week the club celebrated its birthday by totting up first-year sales: the 90,000 members had bought nearly 600,000 books...
...What's the price on these two dresses?" Vaughn asked mistress of ceremonies Helen Damon afterwards. "I really don't know," was the cool reply...
...Freshman Lineup: Singles: Hughes, Nicholl, Frey, Kaynes, Deane, and Preston. Alternates: Zinsser, Cohodes, and Damon...
Talk for Hepcats. It was quite a "sack of jack," Robbins conceded, for the law graduate who seven years ago took an an-.. nouncing job with Baltimore's WITH at $17.50 a week. And every cent of it had been hard-earned. Like Walter Winchell and the late Damon Runyon, Robbins had almost singlehanded created his own "language," and built his audience by teaching it to them (see box). He started with a few scattered scat idioms picked up from jazzmen, rapidly invented new ones on principles of alliteration, assonance and (occasionally) metaphor...