Trigger Of Deadly Food Toxin Discovered Oct 22, 2009
The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Viewpoints: Hard-hit publications gamble that selling vice will save them Oct 22, 2009
He said that if newspapers would stop being so stuffy, they could set up ATM-style machines in lobbies and at newsstands and "take over a business that the mob now does illegally worth $20 (billion) to $40 billion a year." "Newspapers are not sacred papal offices. It's a Damon Runyon business.". Arthur Gelb may have written about the Runyon days fondly, but he disputes the virtue of vice. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Reilly: In awe of the Williams sisters » Aug 27, 2009
Rick Reilly is the winner of the 2009 Damon Runyon Award for Outstanding Contributions to Journalism, an honor previously won by Jimmy Breslin, Tim Russert, Bob Costas, Mike Royko, George Will, Ted Turner and Tom Brokaw, among others. He has been voted National Sportswriter of the Year 11 times. (ESPN -- Tennis)
On the Waterfront writer Schulberg dies Aug 7, 2009
Dorothy Parker and Damon Runyon were also admirers. But, inevitably, Schulberg made enemies. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Sidney Zion, 75; worked to cut doctors’ long hours Aug 5, 2009
With his free-flowing celebrity chatter, political gossip, media scuttlebutt, and Mafia stories, he was often likened to Damon Runyon, the newspaperman and short-story writer of the 1930s and 40s, whose Broadway characters included wiseguys and dolls, mouthpieces and scribes, Sidney Zion s kind of people. Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
LincRNAs serve as genetic air-traffic controllers Jul 15, 2009
This study was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, and support from the Damon Runyon Cancer Foundation, the Smith Family Foundation and the National Human Genome Research Institute. In addition to Rinn, Khalil, and Guttman, coauthors include Broad Institute investigators Eric Lander (co-senior author), Manuel Garber, Aviva Presser, Bradley Bernstein, and Aviv Regev; Maite Huarte, Dianali Rivera Morales, and Kelly Thomas of BIDMC and the Broad Institute; and Arjun Raj and... (EurekAlert!)
What Drives Lung Cancer's Spread? Jul 4, 2009
The work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Hearst Foundation, and the Alan and Sandra Gerry Metastasis Research Initiative. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS. Email or share this story. (Science Daily)
Mr. College Football May 16, 2009
The writers side includes Grantland Rice, Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner and yes, Furman Bisher. If youre too young to have ever read these men, do. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Munson joins broadcasters Hall of Fame tonight May 5, 2009
The writers side includes Grantland Rice, Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner and yes, Furman Bisher. If youre too young to have ever read these men, do yourself a favor this summer. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Seersucker Suits, Pants and Jackets... Apr 19, 2009
Seersucker has long been a favorite summer fabric, evolving from factory work pants and preppy jackets to business suits for celebrities like dandy Damon Runyon ... Midway in the 20th Century, college students and New York Columnist Damon Runyon adopted the cheap fabric as something of a fashion revolution. (Suite101.com)
New Alternative To Biopsy Detects Subtle Changes In Cancer Cells, Study Shows Apr 15, 2009
The study was supported by the National Cancer Institute, the Burroughs Welcome Fund, the Damon Runyon Foundation and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS. Email or share this story. (Science Daily)
New alternative to biopsy detects subtle changes in cancer cells, Stanford study shows Apr 13, 2009
The study was supported by the National Cancer Institute, the Burroughs Welcome Fund, the Damon Runyon Foundation and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The Stanford University School of Medicine consistently ranks among the nation's top 10 medical schools, integrating research, medical education, patient care and community service. (EurekAlert!)
April 9 Around Town news briefs Apr 10, 2009
Based on the short stories of Damon Runyon, "Guys and Dolls" features the timeless songs, "Luck be a Lady," "Fugue for Tinhorns," and "Bushel and a Peck." Bring the whole family to enjoy this classic show. Performances are on Friday May 1 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday May 2 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets may be purchased online at MKTix. (Littleton Independent, MA)
Angiogenesis inhibitor improves brain tumor survival by reducing edema Mar 30, 2009
Additional co-authors are Annique Duyverman, MD, Johanna Lahdenranta, PhD, Delphine Lacorre, PhD, Emmanuelle di Tomasso, PhD, Dan G. Duda, PhD, DMD, Lance L. Munn, PhD, and Dai Fukumura, MD, PhD, Steele Lab; and Tracy Batchelor, MD, Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology at MGH. The study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the Damon Runyon Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Montesi Family Research Fund and AstraZeneca... (EurekAlert!)
The world according to Garth Mar 27, 2009
His life was more operetta than opera, and his manner of speech was imitation Damon Runyon with a Bronx lilt. He would sing his own praises, using words like bullets, then interrupt himself with asides that made him sound like an off-Broadway low-life huckster. (Globe and Mail)
Guys, Dolls, and Pastor Ted: Evangelicalism takes the stage Mar 22, 2009
Based on a short story by the sometime newsman Damon Runyon, the show features what must be one of the greatest stagings of a prayer meeting ever - the scene in which a gambler named Nicely-Nicely Johnson offers a testimonial of faith in the form of a sung dream about a conversion experience. Although it's not clear whether his testimony is sincere, and although the moralizing Save-a-Soul Mission is depicted as prudish, earnest, and condemnatory, the play ends with the apparent conversion of its... (Boston Globe)
Mel Seeks a Comeback Mar 3, 2009
" "I think I m one of the few people in this room who was at the original opening night," Burrows quipped. He loved the show. "Guys and Dolls" has a hit right here, to paraphrase one of its eminently hummable songs. The score is to die for, and the story is pretty relevant considering the condition of New York right now. Damon Runyon wrote the stories that became this show from a gritty city full of characters. With the economy and peril, and a mayor who s put gigantic potted planters and... (Fox News)
Des revives Dolls on Broadway Mar 2, 2009
Based on a story and characters of Damon Runyon ... It is as its guiding light, Damon Runyon, might write a 100 per cent musical comedy. (Globe and Mail)
Stratford's master juggler Feb 28, 2009
McAnuff says he felt the classic show, based on a Depression-era yarn by Damon Runyon, was really the perfect idea for a musical. It exists on this mythic landscape that never really existed. (Globe and Mail)
Adam Gopnik: Damon Runyon’s guys and dolls. Feb 23, 2009
Damon Runyon s guys and dolls ... Of all the pop formalists, the purest and strangest may be Damon Runyon, the New York storyteller, newspaperman, and sportswriter who wrote for the Hearst press for more than thirty years, inspired a couple of Capra movies, and died in 1946. (New Yorker)
Newly Discovered Gene Could Be A Prime Target In The Most Lethal Brain Cancer Feb 20, 2009
Funding came from the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Institute, a Damon Runyon Foundation Scholar Award, a grant from the Southeastern Brain Tumor Foundation, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, a grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research, the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Fund for Cancer Research, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the American Brain Tumor Association, the Brain Tumor Research Fund at Johns Hopkins, grants from Beckman Coulter, grants from the Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure Foundation,... (Science Daily)
The Hsp90-Antifungal Combo, please: Compromising fungi in the immunocompromised Feb 10, 2009
This research was supported by Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a Genzyme Fellowship, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, and a Canadian Institutes for Health Research Grant. Susan Lindquist's primary affiliation is with Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, where her laboratory is located and all her research is conducted. (EurekAlert!)
