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...nine listed charities on this year's pledge card are: the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students; phillips Brooks House; the Salzburg Seminar; the World Student Service Fund; the American Friends Service Committee; the Boston Community Fund; CARE: the Children's Hospital; the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund; and the American Cancer Society...
...only change from last year's list of charities has been the addition of the World Student Service Fund. The most popular cause in the 1950-51 campaign was the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund...
Guys and Dolls. Delightful lowdown musical about Broadway's floating crap games and the Damon Runyon babes who need new shoes (TIME...
Bach to Berlin. At 35, K.U.'s new chancellor is an urbane, affable man who reads everything from Rabelais to Runyon, listens to everything from Bach to Berlin, gets along equally well with scholars, bankers, farmers and legislators. The son of a physician, he graduated from K.U. in 1936, and after time out for a year of studying physiology at Gottingen, Germany, finally got his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was top man in his class. By the time he returned to his home town, he had been around enough to be sure of one thing...
Ahead of him are more Runyon Fund tours, to Italy, Scandinavia, possibly Israel. And this week Sugar Ray is settling down to the serious business of getting ready for a title defense against British Empire (and European) Middleweight Champion Randy Turpin next month. Turpin, at 23, is a real challenge to the champion, a fighter with the power, if not the ring-wise skill of Robinson himself. In 50 fights, young Turpin has been beaten only once (by France's Jean Stock). Since he won his title last October, Turpin has knocked out seven opponents in a row, including...