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FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS (181 pp.)-Damon Runyon Jr.-Random House...
Some recent imitators, good and bad: The Duke (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC) has echoes both of Damon Runyon and all the situation comedies from I Love Lucy to The Life of Riley. Starring Newcomer Paul Gilbert as a middleweight boxing champion who has been lured into culture through a business connection with a Harvard man (Claude Stroud), the opening script (written by Hollywood's Charles Isaacs and Jack Elinson) took a fresh and inventive look at a great many stock situations. Culture-bound Gilbert turns out to be a better than adequate painter with an inclination to color bananas...
...giving $250,000 to the Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund, which supports New York University's Institute of Industrial Medicine, which is trying to find the cancer-causing factor in cigarette...
There was even a verse about him; it showed how the '20s felt about Earl Sande, even if it taught a lot of people to mispronounce the name (rhymes with grand). Wrote Columnist Damon Runyon with a Broadway mist...
...reply, Lyons wisely declined "to bore readers by devoting full columns to reprinting the minutes" of the Runyon Fund meeting. He resigned because he and Winchell disagreed about almost everything (especially each other) and because "the cause of cancer research was more important than a dispute between columnists." Columnist Lyons, who was once a practicing lawyer, was, however, fascinated by the suggestion that Winchell would be acquitted if he pushed Lyons under the wheels of a truck. Said Lyons in a "personal" to Commissioner Monaghan last week: "This ... is public notice to you to pick up his permits...