Damon Runyon chipped in. So did newspapermen in Denver. Funds came from Author-Scenarist Gene Fowler, Col lier's Editor William Chenery, Colorado Governor Ralph L. Carr, New York Mirror Publisher Charles B. McCabe, Manhattan Drama Critic Burns Mantle, many another journalist and ex-journalist who had cut his teeth on Denver papers, in the good old days.
The object of their solicitude was Joe Diner, 62, steward of the Denver Press Club one of the few surviving institutions of its kind in the U.S. and probably the only one with a club building of its own. Word had gone out that Joe had...
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