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...years, at a saucy angle, the derby accompanied Jimmy Johnston and his winged gab through boxing's shady domain. Wearing neat dark suits, and never smoking nor touching whiskey, he hung out mostly at Lindy's, and talked a kind of gay illiteracy straight out of Damon Runyon...
...Books, presented Gertrudes to Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee) for New Adventures of Ellery Queen, to Dashiell Hammett for The Thin Man, to Thorne Smith posthumously (the prize was accepted by his two daughters) for Topper, to Max Brand posthumously for Singing Guns (a western), to Damon Runyon for Best of Damon Runyon and Damon Runyon's Favorites, and to Shirley Cunningham for The Pocket Entertainer (popular with troops...
Instead of smalltime bylines, American Weekly will henceforth parade such high-priced talent as Fannie Hurst, John Erskine, Paul Gallico, Damon Runyon, et al, from Hearst's Cosmopolitan circuit...
Many Britons firmly believe that 1) Americans talk like characters out of Damon Runyon and 2) that it is hazardous to walk the streets of gangster-ridden Chicago...
Died. Joseph Vincent Connolly, 50, onetime editorial kingpin of the Hearst empire, hardheaded, hard-working boss of Hearst's King Features and International News Service; of a heart attack; in New Rochelle. N.Y. "Smiling Joe" Connolly made Walter Winchell, Damon Runyon, Arthur "Bugs" Baer and Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley into prize press packages. A big spender of Hearst's money, he covered King George VI's coronation to the hilt: he hired Lloyd George to report the politics, G.B.S. to make the wisecracks, Grand Duchess Marie to do "the women's angle...