October 4, 2005

Luck Be a Lady

Filed under: Almanac - Ric @ 7:46 am

It’s the birthday of Damon Runyon, born in Manhattan, Kansas (1884). He was a newspaper man. He moved to New York in 1910. The musical Guys and Dolls was based on his stories. He said, “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.”

From the Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor
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