Word: joes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engraved invitations looked like those in many another June mailbox. They read: "Mr. Ham Fisher requests the honour of your presence at the marriage of Ann Howe to Mr. Joe Palooka on the afternoon of June twenty-fourth in your favorite newspaper." Last week Ham Fisher had already received formal acceptances from Chief Justice Fred Vinson, General Omar Bradley, and Attorney General Tom Clark...
...romance ever traveled a rockier road. Among the bumps: Joe's impulsive enlistment in the Foreign Legion (it took President Roosevelt's appearance in the strip to get him out), his six years as a private in the U.S. Army (which made Palooka the hero of numerous recruiting posters), Ann's airplane crash in Wyoming (40,000 fans flooded Fisher with anxious inquiries) and her subsequent amnesia...
...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...
When Palooka first fell in love with Ann (she was 16, he was 17), he told her: "I certny wunt have youse marry me until I kin give youse ever'thing in the world." Today he talks almost as elegantly as Gene Tunney. In 19 years, Joe has also grown older (he is now 24), taller and heavier. But he is just as clean-living, unsophisticated, tolerant and red-blooded an American as ever, and as innocent as if he never had a man-to-man talk about life with Man-about-Manhattan Fisher. Palooka is still world...
Ezzard Charles won the heavyweight "championship" of the world minus New York and England last night by a unanimous 15-round decision over Joe Walcott in Comiskey Park, Chicago...