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Hence the title ``Cinderella Man'' - the nickname tagged on Braddock by sports writer Damon Runyon - that's being used for both the movie starring Russell Crowe that hits theaters nationwide today and the book that Jeremy Schaap spent about a year assembling before its release a month ago. He wrote of Damon Runyon and his own unique development of American vernacular: "Damon Runyon's slang is as contrived and romantic as Dickens,' He wrote of boxer Joe Louis, whom he came to know: "I know it is hard, perhaps impossible, for any white man to appraise the character of any Negro. DAMON RUNYON, legendary writer and humorist, as the coffin of the great middleweight boxer, Stanley Ketchel, was being lowered into the ground: "I betcha if someone started counting, Ketchel'd get up at five. |
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