Runyon, Damon (1880-1946)
Damon Runyon personified the spirit of Broadway in the Roaring 1920s. A renowned American journalist and sports writer for three and a half decades, he is best remembered for...
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Damon Runyon was one of the most popular journalists and writers during the first half of this century. After he died in 1946, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows adapted Runyon stories and characters into th...
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When Alfred Damon Runyon moved to New York City, sometime in late 1910, he was thirty years old, a seasoned journalist, and a stranger to the city. Though he had published a handful of short stories i...
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The iconoclastic Damon Runyon was a highly respected sportswriter, but he was also more than a sportswriter. His style reflected the America of the turn of the century: brash, bold, and swaggering. Kn...
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Today is Thursday, Dec. 20, the 354th day of 2007. There are 11 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 20, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was completed as ownership of the territo...
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Feinstein’s at the Regency 540 Park Avenue at 61st Street 212-339-4095 Wednesday, May 30, and Thursday, May 31, at 8:30 p.m.; Friday, June 1, and Saturday, June 2, at 8:30 and 11 p.m.
On a ...
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This much can be said right now about the early 2008 primary and caucus schedule for Senator Hillary Clinton: It looks, as Damon Runyon might have put it, more harrowing than somewhat.
When the De...
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This much can be said right now about the early 2008 primary and caucus schedule for Senator Hillary Clinton: It looks, as Damon Runyon might have put it, more harrowing than somewhat.
When the D...
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In the hurly-burly decades after the Civil War, uptown and downtown, on and off the Bowery and all over Five Points, the New York underworld boasted a roster of real-life shady characters—cro...
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In the hurly-burly decades after the Civil War, uptown and downtown, on and off the Bowery and all over Five Points, the New York underworld boasted a roster of real-life shady characters—cro...
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On June 13, 1935, at Madison Square Garden, a miracle happened. On that dreary but fateful day in the heart of the Great Depression, a poverty-stricken Irish dockworker from North Bergen, N.J., mad...
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Runyon, Damon (1880-1946)
(Alfred) Damon Runyon
Today in history - Dec. 20
