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Framingham, Mass., Carousel Theater: Lloyd Bridges rolls the Runyon dice as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls...
Brunswick, Me., Summer Playhouse: Guys and Dolls, Damon Runyon's Broadway blended with the best of Tin Pan Alley...
...Damon Runyon...
...Runyon's sawed-off Napoleon was a wiry Chicago southpaw pitcher named Dickie Kerr who had just won his second game for the White Sox in baseball's most embarrassing World Series. Behind him, some of the best players in the history of the game had played like bushers. Shoeless Joe Jackson, perhaps the greatest outfielder of them all, was unaccountably awkward under easy flies; Swede Risberg, the sure-handed shortstop, was fielding grounders with his feet; First Baseman Chick Gandil seemed asleep on the sack. But sawed-off Kerr had pitched his heart out against the Cincinnati...
...March, he went to the West Coast to sun his ailing sinuses. A lithe, five-goal polo player, Ramfis was presently presiding over ringside tables at Mocambo and L'Escoffier. One evening he grandly wrote out a check for $25,000 to Walter Winchell for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund...