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Damon Runyon was born Alfred Damon Runyan to Alfred Lee and Elizabeth (Damon) Runyan. [6] His relatives in his birthplace of Manhattan, Kansas , included several newspapermen. [ 7 ] His grandfather was a newspaper printer from New Jersey who had relocated to Manhattan, Kansas, in 1855, and his father was the editor of his newspaper in the town.
About 500 people attended Masterson's service at Frank E. Campbell's Funeral Church at Broadway and 66th Street. Masterson's honorary pallbearers included Damon Runyon, Tex Rickard, and William Lewis. Runyon was a close friend of Masterson's and offered this memorable eulogy: "He was a 100 percent, 22-karat real man.
May Tully died from nephritis in 1924, aged about 40 years, in New York City. [21] Headlines after her death highlighted her love and knowledge of baseball. [22] " She had a wide acquaintance among baseball men, players, managers, magnates, and writers," noted Damon Runyon, and was accepted into their company "because of her understanding of the game and its atmosphere."
Damon Runyon was a big fan and wrote the restaurant into his books as "Mindy's." The musical Guys and Dolls, based on Runyon's writings, immortalizes Lindy's in one of its songs. [22] [23] The commonly told "Waiter, there's a fly in my soup" joke is theorised to have originated at Lindy's during its original incarnation. [24]
According to Damon Runyon, Jr.'s memoir, Father's Footsteps (New York: Random House, 1954; London, Constable, 1955), his father was indeed cremated and his ashes were scattered over Manhattan Island on December 18, 1946. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker did not fly the plane; the pilot was John F. Gill, and the co-pilot was Captain Eddie Barber.
Sorrowful Jones, also known as Damon Runyon's Sorrowful Jones, is a 1949 American comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lanfield. The film stars Lucille Ball and Bob Hope. Sorrowful Jones was a remake of a 1934 Shirley Temple film, Little Miss Marker. In the film, a young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones (Hope) as a marker ...
Racing Lady is a 1937 American drama film produced by RKO Radio Pictures, which premiered in New York City on January 12, 1937, and was released nationally on January 29.. Directed by Wallace Fox, the screenplay was written by Dorothy Yost, Thomas Lennon, and Cortland Fitzsimmons, based on a story by Damon Runyon, which had been further expanded by J. Robert Bren and Norman Hous
Damon Runyon (born Alfred Damon Runyan), hall-of-fame sports writer and short story writer; Jennifer Runyon, American TV actress born in 1960; Marie M. Runyon (1915-2018), New York political activist, state assembly member 1975–1976; Marvin Travis Runyon, 20th-century American automotive executive and U.S. Postmaster 1992-1998