Word: runyan
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...drawl, "ah thought unless Burkemo goes hawg wile, ah'd be O.K. Ah thought if a man can't win six up he oughta quit and go home." Sam won seven up. It was the handsomest winning margin since a newcomer named Sam Snead lost to Paul Runyan in the 1938 P.G.A. final...
...movie is based on a sardonic New Yorker article by John McNulty, but Scripters Phoebe and Henry Ephron seem to have leaned more heavily on the comic strip Blondie for their family sequences, and on Damon Runyan for an episode with a Chicago gangster. Director Walter Lang helps out the dialogue with pratfalls and horseplay, but what keeps Jackpot moving briskly to its happy ending is the ingratiating acting of Jimmy Stewart...
...Dick Foran, who is a bit too faithful to his part. Faning Virginia Bruce fades in and out occasionally. The picture is a little too long, its plot a trifle illogical, but its dialogue can't always get away from the fact that it was adapted from Damon Runyan, and is consequently good. If the omission of the "Harvard Blues" is considered an unpardonable sin, it is the only blight on a good evening's entertainment...
Such a team - Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Sam Snead, Ralph Guldahl, Horton Smith, Paul Runyan, Dick Metz, Jim my Hines, Harold McSpaden, Vic Ghezzi! "From the boys they overlooked I could pick ten that would beat the pants off that team," sneered Sarazen - with a special glare at his old rival, Walter Hagen, chosen captain for the seventh time...
...great names that once reported football still wrote their bylines on the sports pages last week. In the New York Sun and some 125 other papers Grantland Rice went on murmuring genteel phrases that made football sound as leisurely as golf, as intellectual as chess. But Damon Runyan had become a general columnist and short-story writer; so had Paul Gallico. Westbrook Pegler discoursed solemnly about politics, as did Heywood Broun. William O'Connell McGeehan and Ring Lardner were dead...