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TRIALS AND OTHER TRIBULATIONS (285 pp.)-Damon Runyon-Lipplncotf...
...murder trial possesses some of the elements of a sporting event," wrote the late Damon Runyon. "I am not one of those who criticize the curiosity of the gals who storm the doors of the court room. . . . If I had not seen them, I know I would have been consumed with curiosity to peer at Mrs. Snyder and Judd Gray. . . . It is only a slight variation of the same curiosity that makes me eager to see . . . a great baseball player...
Catering to the public love of murder was one of the things which made Hearstling Damon Runyon's name a byword of the '20s and '30s. Trials and Other Tribulations reprints his grandstand reports of three notorious murder trials (Hall-Mills, Snyder-Gray, Arnold Rothstein), plus the spicy matrimonial case of "Daddy" and "Peaches" Browning, the suit for income tax that sent Al Capone to Alcatraz, and the Senate investigation of the House of Morgan (complete with midget). Last but not least, the reader will have ample opportunity to put Runyon himself on trial and observe...
...Clafiin will probably meet Bob Runyon instead of last year's against graduated Columbia ace, Horvath. At 165 Ray Rogers will wrestle his first meet of the year against experienced Lion Harry Kiender while Don Lauria has dropped down a class to take the place of injured Sandy Jones and will face Columbia's Bruce Gilman...
Robbed: ex-Showgirl Patrice Amati Runyon Coffin, ex-wife of the late Damon Runyon, and her husband Richard Coffin, New Bedford printer; of some $200,000 (her estimate) worth of jewels...