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...Souza has been given a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation—awarded to five outstanding researchers during the initial years of their first faculty position...
...were told never to accept anything free, even a cup of coffee,” says Stanley K. Macdonald, former projects editor at The Courier-Journal.“It became a kind of basis for the industry,” says Keith L. Runyon, editor of The Forum at The Courier-Journal. Later, The Courier-Journal housed the first full-time media critic, and the newspaper was consistently among the top 10 in the U.S.“In his management of the newspapers as well as the broadcast properties, he was always committed to that Murrow vision...
Piven isn't known for pausing. He is known around Los Angeles for doing everything else: dancing at a club, filling in on drums for Wyclef Jean, jogging past the struggling hikers at Runyon Canyon, firing agents or asking another hot woman out on a date--sometimes for the second or third time, even if he didn't remember asking before. As a performer he's more frenetic, having made a career of playing supercharged supporting characters as if he were Al Pacino on a leash. His talent is being big and real simultaneously. Piven's brilliant, nuanced take...
DIED. MARVIN RUNYON, 79, onetime auto-assembly worker who as Postmaster General from 1992 to 1998 pulled the U.S. Postal Service into the black; in Nashville, Tenn. Raising the stamp price only once (from 29 to 32), he cut 23,000 management jobs, hired more letter carriers and raked in $1 billion in profit. Runyon began his career in 1943 at a Ford plant in Dallas, where he climbed to the post of vice president before leaving in 1980 to become Japanese automaker Nissan's first employee in the U.S. As CEO of its American subsidiary, he built Nissan...
This production of Guys and Dolls, the musical based on a story by Damon Runyon, is being presented by the Cabot House Musical Theatre. The romantic comedy follows a cast of colorful characters in New York City as they weave in and out of one another’s lives, singing songs like “Luck be a Lady Tonight,” “Adelaide’s Lament” and “Rockin’ the Boat.” Tickets $7 regular, $5 students. Through May 1. Cabot House Junior Common Room...