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They are Phillips Brooks House, Salzburg Seminar, American Friends Service Committee, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston Community fund, National Scholarship and Service Fund for Negro Students, CARE, and the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund...
...Jersey City, N.J., Sugar Ray Robinson outdanced Challenger Charley Fusari in a defense of his world welterweight championship. The real winner: the Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund, which got $44,785. Robinson's purse: $1. Fusari's purse...
...year-old Macri: "I understand, Mr. Winchell. Thank you very much." Then the two walked together, past a thoughtfully posted Mirror photographer, to a police station only 100 feet away. There Winchell, pale and "sick to my stomach," turned Macri in, claimed the $25,000 reward for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund. It was the second time Winchell had surrendered a man wanted for murder: in 1939, he handed over the late gangster, Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter...
...Damon Runyon Telethon (Sat. noon, NBC-TV). Milton Berle, in a new cancer fund drive, out to beat last year's 16-hour continuous telecast...
...Waldorf-Astoria, he was terrified. He mumbled a few ungrammatical phrases and sat down. Then he went back to his hotel and wept with rage. Next day he hired one_ Madame Amanda, a Metropolitan Opera voice coach, to teach him how to talk. He got Damon Runyon to write him a speech. He memorized it, studied grammar, went on a 40-night lecture tour (at $1,000 a night) and conquered his fears...