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...On this occasion, I’ve no idea where Runyon could have been, but the crucial episode – the Howie’s rescue of the Rookie in the chaotic Dublin night – reminds me of the broadly similar event from which James...
...Ernest Hemingway, Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner, Norman Mailer and Jack Kerouac all worked as sports journalists. Hemingway once got $30,000 from Sports Illustrated for a 2,000-word piece on bullfighting....
...Then two “Harvards” (in Damon Runyon’s undying phrase), Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, will start competing for the White House. Anti-elitism doesn’t exactly seem very potent....
...Damon Runyon, the great chronicler of the seamier side of Prohibition-era America, immortalised Titanic in the Guys and Dolls character Sky Masterson – when Titanic bet, the “sky’s the limit.”...
...James Ferguson, who has been the FT’s foremost caricaturist for many years, and whose illustrations appear in this magazine every week, is a largely self-taught artist....
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