Damon Runyon
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Sep 11, 2026
Adam GopnikGUEST
So just say a few words about how it is that this brilliant book came to be written, because as you know well, it was not a simple...
Adam GopnikGUEST
Fuer and Martin, the two producers who had gotten the rights to, not a particular Damon Runyon story at that point, but to the Damon Runyon, what we would now call the Damon Runyon universe, had commissioned a very well-known screenwriter named Joe Swirling to write a book because he was known for having a great year for the American idiom.
Adam GopnikGUEST
And by one of the strangest misallocations of credit ever, Joe Swerling's name remains on the book by law, by contractual arrangement.
Donna FeoreGUEST
And do you know how much he actually...
Adam GopnikGUEST
They realized that Swirling's book wasn't working at all.
Adam GopnikGUEST
And there was a simple reason for it.
Adam GopnikGUEST
It's because, as you all know if you've read Damon Runyon's writing, it's written in a deliberately and often hilariously stilted and formal style.
Adam GopnikGUEST
And Swirling was trying to just take it off the page and put it on the stage.
Peter LawrenceGUEST
It's none of that, none at all.
Peter LawrenceGUEST
And so I think, you know, if you combine that sort of freedom with the fact that he introduced me very, very young to adult reading, you know, like Raymond Chandler, James Thurber, Damon Runyon.
Peter LawrenceGUEST
I think that combination was incredibly freeing, you know.
Peter LawrenceGUEST
So maybe that's your answer.
Brian R. SolomonHOST
Yeah, my grandfather was a boxing coach and he ran a gym in Hell's Kitchen.
Brian R. SolomonHOST
It sounds like something out of, you know, Damon Runyon or something, but he really did.
Brian R. SolomonHOST
And he worked almost strictly in amateur fighting.
Brian R. SolomonHOST
So he was involved in the Golden Gloves, which was like a big tournament they would have of amateur fighters.
Michael DoranHOST
And that's what I think, that's what Ofer Venter is counting on and everybody else.
Gadi TaubHOST
So, Mike, in order to continue the tradition of quotes, and since all of this is gossip, I have a quote from one of my favorite authors, which is Damon Runyon.
Gadi TaubHOST
And stop me if I quote these things so much that I don't know if I quoted them here already or not.
Gadi TaubHOST
But he has one piece where he speaks of Miss Missouri Martin, also known as Mitsu, who is the owner of the 16th Century Club.
Ross StevensonHOST
Beaten by a nose.
Ross StevensonHOST
In fact, Damon Runyon used to say he got beaten a dirty nose.
Ross StevensonHOST
David.
Ross StevensonHOST
If you put in minimum effort, then
Russel HowcroftHOST
Giving me the come-alongs.
Ross StevensonHOST
Damon Runyon.
Russel HowcroftHOST
Yeah.
Ross StevensonHOST
Who wrote short stories.
Jack BennyHOST
And, uh...
Jack BennyHOST
And here is what Damon Runyon said about our last play.
Jack BennyHOST
Quote, the Yanks, with Ruth in the lineup and Corsetti at short, should be on top at the end of the season.
Jack BennyHOST
And here's what Admiral Byrd said about our play.
Mark LavonierHOST
Welcome to Tuned to Yesterday, bringing you programs from the golden age of radio.
Mark LavonierHOST
I'm your host, Mark Levonier, coming up in this hour, Romance, later on from the Damon Runyon Theatre, but first a broadcast of the first nighter program called Love and Gazooza, a CBS episode from March 25th, 1941.
Mark LavonierHOST
Love and Gazooza
Fred CollinsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Campana's Italian Bomb presents the First Nighter program, a copyrighted feature, coast to coast.
25 MINS LATER
Mark LavonierHOST
This is an hour of romance, untuned to yesterday.
Mark LavonierHOST
I'm your host, Mark Livonier.
Mark LavonierHOST
Now time for an episode of the Damon Runyon Theatre called Maybe a Queen, a syndicated episode from July 3rd, 1949.
Mark LavonierHOST
The Damon Runyon Theatre.
Orson WellesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And that's a rare and precious gift.
Orson WellesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Damon Runyon has it.
Orson WellesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ring Lardner had it.
Orson WellesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Sports writers, they were too.
Steven GoldmanHOST
He wrote over 400 short stories.
Steven GoldmanHOST
One critic I consulted just now said he's in the same department as Damon Runyon, but that the more obvious comp was to Ring Lardner.
Steven GoldmanHOST
You guys like reading, don't you? There's so much for us to catch up on.
Steven GoldmanHOST
If you can find the time, get your library cards revved up now.
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