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  Damon Runyon
Damon Runyon was born in Manhattan, Kansas, but he grew up in Pueblo, Colorado.
Runyon was educated in public schools before being expelled from the sixth grade.
Runyon's underworld stories became popular and his feature 'As I See It' was syndicated in the Hearst newspapers across the country.
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  Damon Runyon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Damon Runyon (October 4, 1884 – December 10, 1946) was a newspaperman and writer.
Runyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children (Mary and Damon, Jr.), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, established in his honor, was set up to fund promising scientists in the field of cancer research.
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 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Damon Runyon Scholar Award was established to support the development of outstanding scientists as independent investigators in the cancer field by helping foster their research productivity during the first few years of their first faculty position.
Five three-year Damon Runyon Scholar Awards at $100,000 are granted to researchers who show exceptional promise of scientific accomplishment and are within the first three years of their assistant professor appointment.
Should the Damon Runyon Scholar wish to discontinue the project, leave the designated institution or modify any agreement on the award letter, he or she must seek approval from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation in advance.
www.drcrf.org /apScholar.html   (1180 words)

  
 Damon Runyon Life Stories, Books, & Links
On this day in 1946, Damon Runyon's ashes were scattered over Broadway by his son, from a plane flown by Eddie Rickenbacker.
Runyon arrived in New York at the age of thirty to be a sportswriter; it was on Broadway that he and his characters -- Harry the Horse, the Lemon Drop Kid, Last Card Louie -- tested Runyon's crapshoot worldview: "All of life is six to five against."
"Runyon was among the first to 'stylize both the language and the behavior of gangsters and depict them as another part of the socio-eonomic system, showing how the underworld provided clients with gambling, sex and hard-to-get sports tickets and, during Prohibition, with liquor,' said Schwarz.
www.todayinliterature.com /biography/damon.runyon.asp   (556 words)

  
 Poker Player Home Page :: Articles :: American Poker Players: Damon Runyon
Damon Runyon is a distinguished writer for his talented perception and portrayal of an America not commonly given to glory.
Runyon learned who was who, what was what, where it went, and who got it.
Runyon had a front row seat for Prohibition, an era when crime became a national pastime and the underworld seemed to have more power than the government.
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 IBHOF / Damon Runyon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A reporter, sports columnist and short story writer, Runyon was born in Manhattan, Kansas and grew up in Pueblo, Colorado.
Runyon possessed an affinity for the fight game and covered most of the major fights from the end of World War I until his death in 1946.
Diagnosed with throat cancer in 1944, Runyon died on December 10, 1946.
www.ibhof.com /runyon.htm   (150 words)

  
 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are granted for a three-year term with second- and third-year funding contingent upon satisfactory progress reports.
All fellowship awards are approved by the Board of Directors of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation acting upon the recommendation of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC).
Damon Runyon Fellowship awards are intended for full-time research.
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 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Building on the long-term success of the Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellowships and the Damon Runyon Scholar Awards, the creation of the Clinical Investigator Award is a logical extension of the Foundation's overall mission to defeat cancer.
The Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award is designed to encourage and assist greater numbers of physicians to become clinical investigators and conduct patient-oriented research.
Awardees are also strongly encouraged to identify themselves as Damon Runyon Clinical Investigators when presenting their work at scientific conferences or accepting professional honors or awards.
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All awards are approved by the Board of Directors of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation acting upon the recommendation of the Damon Runyon Scholar Review Panel.
Progress Reporting Scientific: Damon Runyon Scholars must submit a signed two-page progress report due on September 1 of the first and second years of funding, with a brief summary of their research to date.
Send Complete Application to: Award Programs Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation 675 Third Avenue, 25th Floor New York, NY 10017 Note: It is the responsibility of the candidate to ensure that his or her application is complete.
www.radiology.ucsf.edu /research/cg_archive/DamonRunyonScholarAward.doc   (1085 words)

  
 And Still Champion, Damon Runyon - Patricia Ward D''Itri
Patricia Ward D'itri is the author of Damon Runyon and Coauthor of Mercury Contamination: A Human Tragedy as well as numerous articles on literature, history, and women's studies.
From the moment that Damon Runyon's first Broadway story, "Romance in the Roaring Forties," was published in 1929, audiences were captivated.
The first biographies by newspaperman Ed Weimer and Damon Runyon, Jr., stressed Runyon's fame as a newspaper columnist and his personal life.
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 National Baseball Hall of Fame - 1967 Spink Award Winner Damon Runyon
A reporter, sports columnist, and popular short story writer, Damon Runyan was described by Connie Mack as "a master of characters and plots such as we see every day in our grandstands." Runyon was a moody man who always showed just a hint of a smile.
Born in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1884, Runyon arrived in New York in 1910 and covered the New York Giants for the New York American from 1911-1920.
Throat cancer in 1944 left Runyon unable to speak, but he continued to write until his death in December of 1947.
baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/spink_bios/runyon_damon.htm   (233 words)

  
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Damon Runyon Theater - Romance In The Roaring Forties
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Damon Runyon Theater - Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown
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 About The Damon Runyon Theater
Born in Manhattan, Kansas in 1884, Alfred Damon Runyon moved to Pueblo when he was about seven.
He began his writing career with the newspaper which later became the Pueblo Chieftain and went on to become one of the most famous Broadway writers of all times.
Named after Runyon, Damon Runyon Repertory is a 501(C)(3) tax exempt organization incorporated in 1998 with the mission to encourage, promote and provide education in the performing arts in Southeastern Colorado.
www.runyontheater.org /about.htm   (294 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Damon Runyon (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Damon Runyon (Alfred Damon Runyon), 1884–1946, American short story writer and journalist, b.
Manhattan, Kans. He is best known for his humorous stories : written in a picturesque, slangy journalistic idiom (often referred to as Runyonese) : about New York City's Broadway and underworld characters.
The musical Guys and Dolls (1950) was based on Runyon's stories.
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 Amazon.com: Guys and Dolls : The Stories of Damon Runyon: Books: Damon Runyon,William Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Damon Runyon's collection of short stories was first published in the early 1930's - and lights up the seedy side of New York at that time.
Runyon has the most wonderful voice - it is disarmingly confessionaly, sort of like you would expect a poorly educated but street smart gangster to talk in front of judge.
This is an intelligent compilation of Damon Runyon's short stories, dating from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140176594?v=glance   (1441 words)

  
 Schwarz book on Damon Runyon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The writer and reporter Damon Runyon captured New York City's colorful lowlifes of the 1920s and '30s so indelibly that his legacy still lives on in American popular culture.
Runyon was among the first to "stylize both the language and the behavior of gangsters and depict them as another part of the socio-eonomic system, showing how the underworld provided clients with gambling, sex and hard-to-get sports tickets and, during Prohibition, with liquor," said Schwarz.
In addition, Runyon's short stories, with their rough-and-tumble characters and gangsters who live by their own code, and the writer's uncanny ability to dissect "the sham beneath the glitter" have contributed to Americans' continuing fascination with the sleazy side of entertainment, sports and sports gambling, and complicit relationships between criminals and the police.
www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/03/6.26.03/Runyon_book.html   (250 words)

  
 Talkin' Broadway - "Damon Runyon's Broadway"
Runyon was a journalist in the Thirties, and he saw it all --bootleggers, horse players, goldfish swallowers and high society dandies at play.
Sequined chorus girls like Runyon's Queenie Martin drew diamonds and protection from the millionaires and syndicate gang lords.
When Runyon wrote about characters like Judge Henry G. Blake --who was not a judge at all but a "well-dressed bum" -- he must have been thinking of some less lovable habitues of Broadway pool halls and game galleries.
www.talkinbroadway.com /talkin/runyon.html   (743 words)

  
 Cornell News: Damon Runyon book   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Damon Runyon's continuing influence on TV, films and media celebrity coverage is subject of Cornell professor's new book
His new book, Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture, was released this spring by Palgrave Macmillan and is now in bookstores.
Runyon was among the first to "stylize both the language and the behavior of gangsters and depict them as another part of the socio-eonomic system, showing how the underworld provided clients with gambling, sex and hard-to-get sports tickets and, during Prohibition, with liquor," says Schwarz.
www.news.cornell.edu /releases/June03/Damon.Runyon.book.html   (325 words)

  
 Broad Press Release - Sabeti receives Damon Runyon Fellowship
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation selected 17 fellows at its February 2004, Scientific Advisory Committee review.
I am delighted that she was selected as a Runyon Fellow.
During the 57 years since its founding, the Damon Runyon Research Foundation has gained worldwide prominence in cancer research by identifying promising young postdoctoral scientists and providing them with financial support for their research.
www.broad.mit.edu /media/2004/sabeti_runyon_0429.html   (338 words)

  
 Runyon, Damon articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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Runyon, Damon RUNYON, DAMON [Runyon, Damon] (Alfred Damon Runyon), 1884-1946, American short story writer and journalist, b.
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 Damon Runyon Scholar Award   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has limited the number of submissions to two applications per invited institution.
The award will be made to the awardee’s institution, with the understanding that it is to be used for the awardee’s salary, technical support and/or technical equipment or supplies for the awardee’s research, to be distributed as the awardee wishes.
Applications should include the application cover sheet, a letter of nomination from the institution department head, a letter of nomination from the institution, a letter from the applicant describing his or her previous research and teaching experience.
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 Damon Runyon - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
Damon Runyon - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK home
Alfred Damon Runyon was born in 1884 at Manhattan, Kansas, the son of a printer.
Runyon's stories are highly original and lively evocations of Broadway low-life and the New York sporting scene.
www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000028176,00.html   (226 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Treasury of Damon Runyon: Books: Damon Runyon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The stories within and the excellent introduction (which sheds much more light on the author's life than any other Runyon collection) make this both a perfect introduction to Runyon's Broadway or an excellent addition to a collection.
Damon Runyon is often forgetten when the time comes to list the great American writers of the 20th century.
His unique style of prose is truly entertaining, and he evokes any emotion from the reader at will ("Little Miss Marker", for example will force you through the whole spectrum of emotion).
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/039460444X?v=glance   (519 words)

  
 Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund [Cancer Fund Information and Activities]
The Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund does not have the monetary base of the National Cancer Institute.
The award ofa RUnyon-Winchell Fellowship was essen- tial in the development of the flexible research program thai enabled me to pursue and continue a career in my field, and helped me become a scientist, physician, and educator.
with Louis DeLuca, Executi~'e Dire¢lor cf the Runyon.
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 Damon Runyon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Damon Runyon - Runyon, Damon (Alfred Damon Runyon), 1884–1946, American short story writer and journalist,...
Siemens Medical Solutions Pledges $1.5 Million to Accelerate Clinical Cancer Research; Gift to the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Demonstrates Commitment to Revolutionizing Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease.
Eli Lilly and Company Pledges $12.5 Million to Accelerate Cancer Clinical Research; Lilly's Commitment to Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation now totals $27.5 million.
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 Literary Visitors To Mystery Fiction
Damon Runyon became famous in the 1930's for his humorous, and highly original, short stories about Broadway low lifes, gamblers, crooks and bootleggers.
Aside from the fact that many of Damon Runyon's tales have crooks as their protagonists, his stories have little in common with the Rogue School.
Rogue literature forms a well defined tradition of elegant crooks committing ingenious thefts, while impersonating members of the upper classes and thumbing their nose at the police.
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 Damon Runyon Quotations
I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
Damon Runyon (October 3, 1880 December 10, 1946) was a newspaperman and writer.
All quotations remain the intellectual property of their originators.
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 Damon Runyon (1880 - 1946)
            The Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation.
Texts of various works by Damon Runyon will be available here soon.
order Damon Runyon Reader (hardcober, 1990) from amazon.com.
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