Jimmy Cannon
55 E 84th St, New York, NY 10028, United States
Jimmy Cannon attended Regis High School but dropped out after one year.
55 E 84th St, New York, NY 10028, United States
Jimmy Cannon attended Regis High School but dropped out after one year.
Ernest Hemingway
Jimmy Cannon's friend, Joe E. Lewis
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1943
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1951
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1978
Actor columnist journalist reporter author
Jimmy Cannon was born on the 10th of April, 1910 in New York City, New York, United States as James Cannon. The son of a low-level Tammany Hall politician, Thomas J. and Loretta (Monahan) Cannon. He was the first-born of three sons. Growing up on city streets taught Cannon to respect poor and hard-working people.
Jimmy Cannon attended Regis High School but dropped out after one year.
Only fourteen when he left high school, Cannon took a job in the New York Evening World's classified advertising department. In less than two years, he moved to the New York Daily News, working as a graveyard-shift copy boy, and then general assignment reporter from 1927 to 1930. After composing a radio column for the New World-Telegram from 1930 to 1934, Cannon got much-needed exposure while with the International News Service where he served as a feature writer from 1935 to 1936.
Celebrated writer Damon Runyon, then with the New York Journal, liked Cannon’s reporting of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. Suggesting that Cannon cover sports, Runyon helped the young man find a position at the New York American, where he accepted the post of a sportswriter in 1936-1939. Cannon appreciated Runyon’s support but refrained from attributing his style to Runyon.
Drafted into the army during World War II, Cannon was a combat correspondent for PM in 1941-1942 and for the army newspaper, Stars and Stripes in 1942-1945. In 1945 Cannon joined the New York Post as a sports columnist. Except for a brief return to combat reporting during the Korean War, he remained a Post sportswriter until 1959, when he joined the New York Journal-American as America's highest-paid sports columnist, at a reported salary of $1, 000 per week.
When the Journal-American merged with the New York Herald-Tribune and the World-Telegram and Sun in 1966 to create the World Journal Tribune, Cannon's column appeared there until the paper ceased publication in 1967. Cannon suffered from a stroke in May 1971 and was confined to a wheelchair. Although his column resumed on the Hearst Headline Service newswire, it did not appear in a New York newspaper until the Post hired him in 1972, after he had had a stroke. He worked there until his death in 1973.
In addition to commentary and interviews, Cannon occasionally wrote what were known as his You're columns. As the author, Jimmy Cannon wrote, The Sergeant Says in 1943, as well as Nobody Asked Me and Who Struck John? in 1951. His book, Nobody Asked Me, But ...: The World of Jimmy Cannon came out posthumously and was edited by Jack Cannon and Tom Cannon. Holt, Rinehart & Winston in 1978. He also was a contributor to periodical publications including True, McCall's, and Esquire.
Quotations:
"Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected".
"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime".
"A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong".
"A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another".
"Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht".
"Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race".
"England produces the best fat actors".
"Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler".
"A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set".
"Nobody asked me, but...".
"If Howard Cosell were a sport, he'd be roller derby".
"I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas".
"Hockey would be a great game if played in the mud".
"I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella".
"He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted".
"Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages".
The second-person narration was a Cannon's trademark.
Physical Characteristics: Short and chunky, Cannon was not athletic.
Quotes from others about the person
"A bloodied preliminary fighter struggling to get up from the canvas, a cancer-stricken Babe Ruth, or an exhausted army private behind a mud-encrusted machine gun". - Klein described Cannon's writing style.
"Tough, but fastidious, because he had found the words himself and he valued them, like a gangster's jewelry". - Wilfred Sheed described Cannon.
"An excellent sportswriter and also a very good writer aside from sports. I don't know anybody who takes his job more seriously or with more confidence. He's able to convey the quality of the athlete and the feeling, the excitement, of the event". - Ernest Hemingway.
Jimmy Cannon never married.
Joe E. Lewis was born on the 12th of January, 1902 in New York City, New York, as Joseph Klewan and died on the 4th of June, 1971 in New York City. He was an American actor, known for Too Many Husbands, Waltz Across Texas and The Holy Terror. He was married to Martha Stewart.
