Word: palooka
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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...
...this instance, comes in being taken advantage of by some drunken Yaleman (and later handed over, a hopeless reprobate, to the making of Li'l Abner), but the initial joy of such humor is soon dissipated, and by the time the reader wades through a fight-fixing Joe Palooka and a baby-killing Dagwood, he begins to long for the world set right again...
...sort of idealized timelessness. Dick Tracy always catches the crooks he chases; The Nebbs always quarrel; Blondie and Dagwood always make up. It is part of the American daydream, he thinks, to be as courageous as Steve Canyon, as sexually irresistible as Smilin' Jack, as honest as Joe Palooka. In his harried, uncertain life, the American newspaper reader is greatly sustained by the certainties he finds in the comic strip, the movies-and nowhere else...
...Since Joe Palooka's girl, Ann Howe, got lost in the mountains of Wyoming after a plane crash last December, Cartoonist Ham Fisher has been flooded with more than 40,000 anxious inquiries and offers of help. They came from Senators, mayors, police chiefs, Legion posts. Even Harry Truman asked, when Fisher visited the White House: "When's Joe going ta find that girl?" By last week, Ham Fisher had had more than enough. In a special panel in his cartoon strip he assured Palooka fans: "JOE WILL FIND...
Undergrads, Upper Classes. In the readership polls Caniff seldom beats out Ham Fisher's hammy Joe Palooka or Chic Young's just-folksy Blondie. But his comparatively small (31 million) audience is, comparatively speaking, a class audience. It includes collegians (from Harvard to Siwash) and their professors, the Duke of Windsor, Margaret Truman, John Steinbeck†- and, significantly, hundreds of newspaper executives. Two years ago, when a score of syndicate salesmen began to spread the word of a new, as yet unnamed and undrawn comic by Caniff, they had nothing to sell but Caniff's name...