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Damon Runyon. Short Takes: Readers' Choice of the Best Columns of America's Favorite Newspaperman, Damon Runyon
Short Takes: Readers’ Choice of the Best Columns of America’s Favorite Newspaperman, Damon Runyon
Table of Contents
The Insidious I
Is Write Right?
The Wisdom of not Being Wise
Sweet Silence
Wind Storm
The Discriminating Thief
O, Careless Love!
Leave Them and Love Them
The Good Samaritan
Tripping Over Trivia
Origin of an Urge
Magnificent Mammon
You Must Not Trust
MIXED GRILL
A Great Man Passes By
Postscript on Sports Writing
No Justice
Horse Sense
The Thinking Equines
Shall I Return?
Friendliness Goes Out of the Window
OUR OLD MAN
The Thin Line
Marriage Counsel
Live and Let Live
Humouring the Little Women
The Pure of Heart
You Know Them When They're Hungry
The Tolerant Few
Time to Think
MR. JOE TURP WRITES
Nice Fellow
The Rap
Weathering It
Belittling Ben
She's a Dreamer
The Only Answer
The Crawleys
Larcenous Ladies
Sharing Secrets
The Danger of Being Polite
Etiquette
Barber's Business
A Double Life
Fatherly Advice
A Rose By Any Other Name, Etc
The Scab
If It Works the Way They. Hope It Will
DOGS AND CATS
A Tough Town on Dogs
Animal Psychosis
A Dog's Best Friend
Sheba and High Society
HEARTY APPETITES
Dieting Dames
The Way of All Food
Attitudes While Eating
Dinner Despoilers
Holiday Hospitality
Talking Turkey
Free-Loading Ethics
Napkin Technique
Forceful Remarks
BETTER HALVES
Single Track Mind
Out With Her
The Age of Women
Smoking Ladies
The Protective Male
Mrs. Devil
Diaper Dexterity
FOR CHILDREN ONLY
Two Tales of Louie the Stork
I
II
Phooey and Louie
Algernon
I
II
The Tale of Sneaky the Germ
ON BEING SICK
Why Me?
The Doctor Knows Best
No Life
Good Night
Bed-Warmers
Sweet Dreams
Passing the Word Along
Death Pays a Social Call
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Damon Runyon
Published by Good Press, 2021
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It is my opinion that the American who did more for people than any other man of the past fifty years was John D. Rockefeller, and he bothered not at all with people. He avoided them. I would be inclined to doubt that he loved them. I see no reason why he should. Yet he was one of the all-time great benefactors of people. Now I suppose you are waiting for me to round up that third guy of the trio I mention above.
Well, as I afterwards learned, this guy was arrested once for slugging a neighbour who complained about his dog, Toots, barking all night. The neighbour could not sleep. Then my man was arrested on three different occasions for kicking people on the shins in box office and ration board lines, two of his victims being women and the third a blind man.
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