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Demagoguery is a staple of boxing and a specialty of King's, a wild-maned former Cleveland numbers runner who served four years in the Ohio Penitentiary for killing an associate. King got into boxing with a lovable little Damon Runyon-type character named Don Elbaum, who once made a flourish of presenting Sugar Ray Robinson the first gloves he ever wore at Madison Square Garden; Robinson was moved to tears, until both gloves turned out to be righthanded. "Confusion is a promoter's plight and his ally," says King, who is co-promoting the show with Sam Glass...
...prizewinning columnist whose wry wit and pursuit of what he called "the pure crystal stream of the declarative sentence" made him the most influential and admired sportswriter of our time; in Stamford, Conn. Smith, in the great line of such sportswriter-debunkers as Ring Lardner, Westbrook Pegler and Damon Runyon, kept his subjects at arm's length. "These are still games little boys play," he said. "The future of civilization is not at stake." He gave a strong hint of what was to become his skewed, lifelong approach to a story on his first sports assignment in 1928: covering...
...season. Perhaps he will learn the jury's verdict this week. His name is Rick Kuhn, and except for the eyes, he seems younger than 26. He sits at the defense table alone, but in the company of four other defendants, men with even older eyes and Damon Runyon-sounding names, including convicted extortionist Jimmy ("the Gent") Burke. The testimony has been a seamy accounting of gamblers, kids, bribes and beating Harvard by "less than twelve...
Marcellino Casanova. Johnny-one-arm. Little Angel from Laslow Street. Cinderella. Names that sound like Damon Runyon. Lives that feel like William Burroughs. These are Garland Jeffreys' mystery kids, and the extraordinary music that he makes about them seems to come straight from their lives...
...around. In a profession where rivalries tend to be fierce, he had no known enemies. Nor did he adopt Hollywood vices, except for an occasional visit to the track. A devout Catholic, Durante lived in a modest eight-room house and worked tirelessly to raise money for the Damon Runyon Fund for Cancer Research...