Damon Runyon
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Alfred Damon Runyon was an American journalist and short-story writer.
Damon Runyon
Boyhood home of Damon Runyon in Manhattan, Kansas
Runyon's World War I draft registration (September 1918)
The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery
James J. Braddock
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James Walter Braddock was an American boxer who was the world heavyweight champion from 1935 to 1937.
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…National Baseball Hall of Fame in July 1968. He is also a member of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame and is known for dubbing heavyweight champion James J. Braddock the "Cinderella Man". Runyon frequently contributed sports poems to the American on boxing and baseball themes and wrote numerous short stories and…
Braddock in 1935
Braddock (left) and Joe Gould (center), training as officers at the Atlantic Coast Transportation Corps Officers Training School in Fort Slocum, New York
James J. Braddock North Hudson Park in North Bergen, New Jersey