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Word: damone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lion with B.O. Breslin parades a gaggle of neo-Runyonesque caricatures, proving mainly that Damon's were pithiest. There is, for instance, 425-pound Big Jelly Catalano, who likes two girls at once and "always takes his clothes off when he eats"-not to mention Roz the Meter Maid, Tony the Indian, Joe the Wop, Beppo the Dwarf and a lion with body odor. Yet the book is funny, particularly on the sadistic Tom-and-Jerry cartoon level of violence, because the characters aren't real and nothing is really at stake but a few laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Sammy Runyon? | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...classmate and boyfriend, James Welch, thought so. A year after she graduated in 1958, he married the Fairest of the Fair. They had two children, Damon and Tahnee. Raquel the housewife interspersed domestic chores with dramatics classes at San Diego State College, and soon grew restive. After three years, the Welches parted?"inevitably," Welch now feels. Raquel headed for Dallas, where she made enough money modeling for Neiman-Marcus and hustling cocktails to have her nose fixed before assaulting Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Myra/Raquel: The Predator of Hollywood | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...Broadway musicals that placed him firmly in the company of such show-business greats as Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers-Where's Charley (1948), Guys and Dolls (1950), The Most Happy Fella (1956) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961). Based on Damon Runyon, Guys and Dolls was Loesser's masterpiece; he ran a perfect string of straight sevens with the hottest musical dice Broadway had seen in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: A Most Melodious Fella | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...speed handicappers--ah, pigeons--who frequent the race tracks can often be heard echoing the familiar Joe E. Lewis refrain by the end of the meeting. "I follow the horses, and the horses I follow.. . follow other horses." )Damon Runyon made Jules Fink and his colleagues famous by calling them the "speed boys." It was a mis-moniker. They were actually brilliant pace handicappers...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: Speed Kills at the Track | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

Joseph Michael Valachi looks a bit like a Damon Runyon gangster-the tough guy who really is all heart. Short (5 ft. 6 in.) and bandy-legged, he could pass as one of those middle-aged truck drivers who spend their days oiT lifting weights at the local gym, then go home and cook up a dinner for the wife and kids-"Joe's Special Recipe for Spaghetti Sauce and Meatballs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: His Life and Crimes | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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