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...Paul Gallico. 4. Damon Runyon...
...Damon Runyon got his first newspaper job when he was a gawky 16-year-old Kansas kid. He has written about 80,000,000 words since then. Some of them were very good. As William Randolph Hearst's top sports-byliner, he could make a silk purse out of a cauliflower ear. When Collier's ballyhooed a Runyon short story on its cover, newsstand sales sometimes went up 60,000 copies. But last week, at 65, Damon Runyon looked back at his career, and said he wished he had been playing Pagliacci instead...
...Damon Runyon in a simulation of humor often manages to say things which, if said in a serious tone might be erased because he is not supposed to say things like that. By saying something with a half-boob air . . . he gets ideas out of his system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart but lacking moral courage. . . . The newspapers of today are full of high-wire walkers like the Runyon of Short Takes . . . he is a hired Hessian of the typewriter ... a disguised defeatist...
...Sherman Damon...
...Henry H. Damon...