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...Damon Runyon called "a great document of a tall, loose-jointed fellow" is the son of a Bronx schoolteacher, grew up wearing glasses as thick as soda biscuits because of conical corneas...
Nivins the Nightshade. The payola game brought Disk Jockey Clay in contact with a string of Damon Runyon-like characters, including Nat ("The Rat") Tarnapol, artist-and-repertory man for Roulette records, and Promoter Harry Balk, indicted earlier this year as a fixer of newspaper puzzle contests (TIME, March 9). But the most lizardous type Tom Clay ever encountered was Harry Nivins, a bald, cherubic nightshade who proved to be Tom's downfall...
...suggested charities" this year are Phillips Brooks House, the Boston United Fund, Crusade for Freedom, World University Service, Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students...
...same time, two new charities, the Crusade for Freedom and the Damon Runyon Fund, were added...
...list now includes: Phillips Brooks House Association, The United Fund, the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, the Crusade for Freedom, and the Damon Runyon Fund for Cancer...