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    The Turps: Collected Stories 1: 1937-1939 by Damon Runyon (Wordsmith, December 2024, 979-8303120822, £10.95, 296pp, tp, co) [Joe & Ethel Turp] [edited by Paul Duncan]
        Also available in hardback (979-8303121270, £19.50).
    • · Introduction · Paul Duncan · in
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel and me went to a movie two weeks ago and it was not so hot…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner April 12 1937
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel and me went to another picture the other night and she is pretty sore about it…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner April 21 1937
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel and me went over to see a picture in a Broadway movie joint the other night…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner May 6 1937
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel ses she is glad they got the King crowned at last all right and the queen too…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner May 15 1937
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel was listening to the radio the other night and some guy told a joke…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner May 21 1937
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel ses to me yesterday what on earth is the matter with all you men anyway…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner June 28 1937
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel and me went to the movies the other night and it was one of these pictures…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner July 5 1937
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel ses to me last night hay Joe, I was going by Jim Wong the laundrymans place today…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner August 2 1937
    • · A Call on the President [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 21 1937
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel and me went to the movies last night and afterwards when we was home…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner August 21 1937
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel and me went to a movie down town last night and before the movie came on…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner September 28 1937
    • · untitled (“When my wife Ethel and me got home from the movies last night she ses Joe I want you to explain something…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner October 10 1937
    • · untitled (“Last night my wife Ethel ses to me Joe it must be a wonderful thing to be Missus Rosefelt…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner November 1 1937
    • · untitled (“When I got home from work last night my dinner was not ready and I ses to my wife Ethel…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner November 7 1937
    • · untitled (“The other day was my wife Ethels birthday so I blew her to a big Guinee dinner…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner November 21 1937
    • · untitled (“One night about a week ago I got home from work my wife Ethels girl friend…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner November 28 1937
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel and me went to a movie last night and in this movie there was a big fight…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner December 5 1937
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel came home the other evening with her clothes mussed and her face dirty…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner December 12 1937
    • · untitled (“I was reading the paper after dinner last night and my wife Ethel was sewing on something…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner December 19 1937
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel and me went to a movie the other night and when we got home…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner December 26 1937
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel was reading the paper the other night and she ses hay Joe how does Walter Winchell…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner January 2 1938
    • · untitled (“When I got home the other night my wife Ethel ses well Joe what have you been doing all day?…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner January 9 1938
    • · untitled (“Last night when I got home from work my wife Ethel seemed to be thinking about something…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner January 16 1938
    • · untitled (“When I got home from work the other night my wife Ethel ses O hello Joe so you are home hay?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner January 23 1938
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel was reading the paper last night and she ses hay Joe I bet Mister Hoover…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner January 30 1938
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel and me went to the movies the other night and on the way home Ethel ses Joe who is your favorite actress in the movies?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner February 6 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night when I was going to bed my wife Ethel was walking around…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner February 13 1938
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel was listening to the radio the other night and she ses Joe what is the idea of those people…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner February 20 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night when we came home from the movies I was reading the paper and my wife Ethel was looking at herself…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner March 13 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night when my wife Ethel and me got home from the movies she ses Joe do you know why people…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner March 20 1938
    • · untitled (“When my wife Ethel and me got home from the movies the other night she ses listen Joe is singing necessary?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner March 27 1938
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel was reading the paper the other day and she ses Joe do you know the difference between the recession and the depression?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner April 3 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night I could not get home for dinner so I had it downtown…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner April 10 1938
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel was leading the paper the other night and she ses Joe how much is a billion?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner April 17 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night I was setting in our living room reading the paper…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner April 24 1938
    • · Nothing Happens in Brooklyn [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · ss Collier’s April 30 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel was reading the paper and she ses Joe what about Missus Dionne?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner May 1 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night I took my wife Ethel to a fight at the Ridgewood Grove…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner May 22 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel was reading the paper and she ses Joe how did Mister Kennedy ever come out about the short pants?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner May 29 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel ses to me hay Joe there is a picture with Clark Gable in it downtown so lets go see it.”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner June 5 1938
    • · untitled (“Last week I got a raise in salary and when I went home and told my wife Ethel…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner June 12 1938
    • · untitled (“Last night my wife Ethel ses to me Joe I bet it is a lot of fun being a Roosevelt.”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner June 19 1938
    • · untitled (“Last night I took my wife to see Joe Louis and Max Schmeling fight…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner June 26 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night I ses to my wife Ethel honey I feel like a movie tonight and she ses why Joe that is swell.”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner July 3 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel was reading the paper and she ses Joe what do you think of the gall of that Danish fellow?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner July 10 1938
    • · untitled (“I had a day off yesterday and so I got out the old can and drove my wife Ethel down to Floyd Bennett Airport…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner July 17 1938
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel ses to me last night Joe do you know long hair is coming back?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner July 24 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night when we got home from the movies I ses to my wife Ethel see here Ethel…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner July 31 1938
    • · untitled (“Last week my boss sent me to Albany to see a fellow about some business…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner August 7 1938
    • · untitled (“I got up late last Sunday morning and after breakfast I started to read the paper…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner August 14 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night when my wife Ethel and me got home from the movies I ses Ethel…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner August 21 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel was late getting home to make my dinner…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner August 28 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel ses Joe if there was a war would you go to it?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner September 4 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night I got out the old bucket and me and my wife Ethel drove over to New York…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner September 11 1938
    • · untitled (“When I got home last night I ses to my wife Ethel see here Ethel what is this I hear…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner September 18 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night I took my wife Ethel to a show on some passes a friend of mine gave me…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner October 2 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel ses to me Joe if you had a friend…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner October 9 1938
    • · untitled (“The other day my wife Ethel showed me the picture of a house in the paper…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner October 16 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel ses to me Joe do you know what a terrible thing Mussolini…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner October 24 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel was reading a lot of newspapers one after the other…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner October 30 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel ses Joe people are certainly awfully crazy.”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner November 6 1938
    • · untitled (“The day after election my wife Ethel ses Joe the paper ses Mister Dewey sent a telegram…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner November 13 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night when I got home from work Mildred Swanson was there…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner November 20 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night after we had a big thanksgiving dinner…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner November 27 1938
    • · untitled (“When I got home the other night my wife Ethel ses why Joe what makes you look so solemn?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner December 4 1938
    • · untitled (“The other night when I got home I ses to my wife Ethel hay Ethel what do you think?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner December 11 1938
    • · untitled (“That lumbago that Johnny Walker the traveling fellow had did not get better…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner December 18 1938
    • · untitled (“Yesterday was a nice warm Sunday so I took my wife Ethel to the beach…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner December 25 1938
    • · untitled (“My wife Ethel and me got back from Florida yesterday in the old bucket…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner January 1 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night my wife Ethel ses Joe my Uncle Ben was over today.”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner January 8 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel was reading the paper and she ses Joe suppose we went to Paris…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner January 15 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night I took my wife to the movies and when we got home I ses now look here Ethel…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner January 22 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel was reading the paper and she ses Joe do you know what?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner January 29 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night when my wife Ethel and I were coming out of the movies…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner February 5 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night when my wife Ethel and I were coming home from the movies we passed Minnie Schultz…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner February 12 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night I took my wife Ethel to the movies and when we got home she ses Joe I have been thinking of something.”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner February 19 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night I took my wife Ethel to a night club over in New York…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner February 26 1939
    • · untitled (“When I got home from work the other evening I ses to my wife Ethel hurry…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner March 5 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night I was going along Flatbush Avenue with my wife Ethel…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner March 12 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel went to a movie alone…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner March 19 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night I had to work late so my wife Ethel went to the movies…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner March 26 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel ses Joe the Worlds Fair is all right now.”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner April 2 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night when I got home from work my wife Ethel ses Joe do you know what day this is?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner April 9 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night when I got home from work I ses to my wife Ethel well sweets what have you got…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner April 16 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night when I got home from work I ses to my wife Ethel what is this jam…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner April 23 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel woke me up out of a sound sleep…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner April 30 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel ses Joe do you know ladies skirts are getting shorter?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner May 7 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel ses Joe what people important?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner May 14 1939
    • · untitled (“When I got home the other night I ses to my wife Ethel hello there Ethel…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner May 21 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel ses Joe what becomes of all the money when nobody has any?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner May 28 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night my wife Ethel ses Joe do you know what I would like to have?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner June 4 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night I took my wife Ethel to Ebbets Field to see the Brooklyn Dodgers…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner June 11 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night I told my wife Ethel I would take her to the Worlds Fair…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner June 18 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night I took my wife Ethel and her Moms and her Pops and her Uncle Ben…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner July 2 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night my wife Ethel ses Joe when are we going to go to the Worlds Fair again?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner July 9 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel and I started out to see the movies…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner July 16 1939
    • · untitled (“When I got home the other night and was sitting down listening…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner July 23 1939
    • · untitled (“One night a couple of weeks ago my wife Ethel ses Joe I have been thinking about something all day long.”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner July 30 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night I took my wife Ethel over to a movie theater on Broadway…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner August 6 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night I was reading the paper and I ses to my Ethel what is ump baby?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner August 13 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night when I got home from work I heard somebody talking in the kitchen…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner August 20 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night when I got home from work my wife Ethels eyes were red…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner August 27 1939
    • · untitled (“When I got home from work last night my wife Ethel was in the kitchen…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner September 3 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night I took my wife Ethel to a movie and they showed the pictures of Tony Galento…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner September 10 1939
    • · untitled (“Every day for the past couple of weeks my wife Ethel has been getting all the newspapers…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner September 17 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night my wife Ethel ses Joe do you know what my Uncle Ben ses?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner September 24 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night my wife Ethel ses Joe my Uncle Ben was here again today…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner October 1 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night when I got home I ses to my wife Ethel hay Ethel whats this about…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner October 8 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night my wife Ethel and I went to the movies and the only seats we could find…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner October 15 1939
    • · untitled (“When I got home last night my wife Ethels Uncle Ben was there…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner October 22 1939
    • · untitled (“Last Saturday was my wife Ethels birthday…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner October 29 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night when I got home the furniture in our living room…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner November 5 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night my wife Ethel was reading the paper and she ses hay Joe listen to this.”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner November 12 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night my wife Ethel was reading a book and I ses whats that you are reading Ethel?”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner November 19 1939
    • · untitled (“Last week my wife Ethels Moms spent a few days at our house…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner November 26 1939
    • · untitled (“The other night the soup my wife Ethel gave me for my dinner was not very good.”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner December 3 1939
    • · untitled (“Last week I made a little unexpected extra dough…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner December 10 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night my wife Ethel ses Joe I wish we had an awful lot of money.”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner December 17 1939
    • · untitled (“Last night my wife Ethel and I went over to New York…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner December 24 1939
    • · untitled (“Last Sunday night I was taking my bath…”) [Joe & Ethel Turp] · Damon Runyon · vi San Francisco Examiner December 31 1939




















































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