SHORT TAKES

by Damon Runyon ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 3, 1946

Short story writer and columnist in a variety of turns-personal confessions, ""Our Old Man"" folk say, sports, characters, etc. These are Runyon's habits, his brain burglary, his conceptions of freedom, yardsticks of achievement (""Get the money""), his use of stock subjects, or of nothing to say, of newspapers and newspaper work; his reminiscences of those he knew in the Spanish-American War; ""Our Old Man"" tells of spiritualism, marriage, age, tolerance, etc., and there are articles on the prize ring, fold, horses, betters and betting, gin rummy, poker, Durante, Winchell, Cobb, Jolson, theatrical ribbers, producers, songwriters, joints, bowties, dogs, women, husbands and wives, children, food--- this is a bulging portfolio of catch as catch can causerie. Of sure appeal to Runyon's followers, this is not however H. Allen Smith type of reading.

Pub Date: May 3, 1946

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Whittlesey

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1946

Categories: NONFICTION