With her passing, the last of the old Damon Runyon-type of New Yorker is now gone.

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"It's very much alive, " says John Runyon, senior public affairs manager for federal affairs at International Paper.

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Their names read like weak imitations of Runyon: One Two (Gerard Butler), Mumbles (Idris Elba), and Handsome Bob (Tom Hardy).

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Across town from Snap's offices in Minneapolis, rivals Chuck L. Runyon and Jeff A. Klinger have been running Anytime Fitness since 2001.

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Strangely, though, they had nicknames that evoked either the Broadway characters of Damon Runyon or, more bizarrely, the upper classes of Wodehousian England: Bongbong, Teddyboy, Ting Ting and Ballsy, for example.

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