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...Johnson was appalled and, prompted by House speaker John McCormack, decided to call a special joint session of Congress....
...It flirts with the clichés of the genre — Wolfe is free jazz, Perkins strictly classical — yet Genius skirts the usual biopic pitfalls thanks to a smart script by John Logan....
...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....
...John Hitchcock, head cutter for the Savile Row tailors Anderson & Sheppard, said: “We sell a lot of seersucker but that’s only because we go to the States twice a year....
...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....
...The kid-flick charm of early reels, narrated with a folksy rasp by John Hurt, gives way to a ponderous eco-fable. Wake Wood is Irish horror from reborn Hammer Films....
...Lane’s Nathan Detroit milked every ounce of yuks from Burrow’s Damon Runyon-inspired script; here, Oliver Platt’s Nathan, with his bulldog mug, sets off titters rather than guffaws....
...John O’Connor is a regular contributor to the FT Weekend Magazine. He is based in New York ………………………………………....
...They followed Damon Runyon’s dictum: “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet it.” While the rest of us got fatter, athletes went the other way....
...As the New York newspaperman and writer Damon Runyon said: “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet it.”...
...The invocation of football befitted a man who – like Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner and other great American writers – was a sports journalist....
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...This comes from the world of Damon Runyon, perfectly distilled in the show’s “book” by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling, and from the composer and lyricist, Frank Loesser....
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