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Jacobs, Damon Runyon once insisted, could talk to horses. As Runyon once wrote: "I have eavesdropped [on] him around the stables many a time and heard him soft-soaping those equine characters. He generally wins their confidence and learns all their troubles. I do not say that they up and tell him, understand. No, I do not say that, because it is something I cannot prove, inasmuch as Hirsch Jacobs himself denies there is any open banter between him and horses. But if they do not tell him, who does?" Runyon had good reason to wonder where his longtime friend...
Garth mixes Machiavelli, McLuhan and Damon Runyon...
Fowler boomed out of Colorado in 1918, a tall, ruggedly handsome frontiersman who had earned his journalistic spurs on the brassy Denver Post. He soon became an ornament on William Randolph Hearst's New York American, along with Damon Runyon and Ring Lardner. Fowler's style was purple but compassionate: when Ruth Brown Snyder and her paramour Judd Gray were electrocuted at Sing Sing in 1928, his account of the execution-reprinted in full in this book-was a bitter indictment of capital punishment...
After MacBride's speech, five human rights experts, Charles Runyon '35, T. Michael Peay, John Carey, Joshua Rubinstein and C. Clyde Ferguson Jr., focused on violations of human rights in the Middle East, Southern Africa and South America...
...wolf man is dead!" So wrote Broadway Bard Damon Runyon on the front page of the now defunct New York Daily Mirror as he led a nationwide chorus of ghoulish jubilation over the 1936 electrocution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted kidnaper of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh. Four decades later a forthcoming book, Scapegoat (Putnam), by Anthony Scaduto, a longtime crime reporter for the New York Post, argues that Hauptmann was innocent. Scaduto says he has unearthed police documents showing not only that someone other than Hauptmann cashed in most of the ransom certificates but that the authorities suppressed...