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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dumbellelski. The story of Ann and Joe really started in 1921, when young Reporter-Cartoonist Hammond Edward Fisher met a Wilkes-Barre prizefighter named Joe, a Polish-American youngster with a fair left, a good right, a soft heart, and no grammar at all. An idea hit Fight Fan Fisher with the force of an uppercut. He rushed back to the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader's office and dashed off the first strip about a dumb, good-natured pug named Joe Dumbelletski...
...Youse. Readers admire Palooka because he is the kind of fellow a lot of them (including Cartoonist Fisher) would like to be. He is big, strong, good-looking and popular; his hefty right always triumphs, often over eye-gouging, foul-fighting opponents. He hobnobs with a lot of celebrities without getting stuck up. An inveterate name-dropper himself, stocky Cartoonist Fisher populates his strip with real people, e.g., Bing Crosby, Tom Clark, Jack Dempsey, and models many of his fictional characters on other celebrities. Humphrey Pennyworth, an engaging, potbellied giant, was inspired by Manhattan Restaurant-Man Toots Shor...
...with the team championship. The score: Southern Cal. 55 2/5, U.C.L.A. 31, Stanford 30, Michigan State 26, Penn State 25. The day's outstanding individual performance: a 56-ft.-1½-in. heave of the shot by Yale's Jim Fuchs, who is also a pretty good halfback in season; Fuchs's toss broke the N.C.A.A. record of another footballer-shot putter, the late Al Blozis of Georgetown, by one inch...
...into the poverty-pinched family of a nonconformist deacon. As a child he liked to draw locomotives, and later cathedrals, striving always for accuracy. Lettering appealed to him because "you don't draw an 'A' and then stand back and say: there, that gives you a good idea of an 'A' as seen through an autumn mist . . . Letters are things, not pictures of things." Moreover, letters, particularly when carved on tombstones, served a clear purpose, and they paid...
...page, Henry A. Burgevine, had more martial spirit than was good for him. In China in the days of the great Taiping rebellion, Adventurer Burgevine entered the Emperor's service. In 1860 he became commander of the foreign mercenaries, but he was ousted and fled to the rebels, who gave him a high command. Captured later by government forces, he was drowned before he could be brought to trial. Some said his boat capsized; some said he was plumped into a burlap bag and dumped into...