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...stoutly denied any romantic involvement with Shirley. In Hollywood, his wife. Cinemactress Kathryn Grayson, 26, admitted that she had exchanged harsh words with Shirley about Johnston but, she added, all that was over now. Both Johnston and his wife accused Professional Golfer Joe Kirkwood Jr., 28, who plays Joe Palooka on the screen, of trying to brew a romance between Shirley and Johnston. His alleged motive: to cut Johnston out with Miss Grayson. Just as angry in his denials, Kirkwood warned that any more such accusations would make him "blow the whole sordid mess wide open and let them...
Along with "White Heat" is "Counter Punch," the Metropolitan's latest Joe Palooka offering. If you enjoy watching a pair of windmills rabbit-punch each other interminably, this is for you. The protagonist of Ham Fisher's fair-haired comic strip is played by one Joe Kirkwood Jr., who says few words and keeps pretty much to himself. Mr. Kirkwood has recently been in court regarding the alleged paternity of a Worcester girl's small children, and his mindprobably was on other things when he made the movie...
When Negro Heavyweight Ezzard Charles was a young boy in Cincinnati, he wanted to be a fighter like gentlemanly Joe Palooka; later his hero was Joe Louis. The trouble with Ezzard when he finally became a pro: it was a lot easier for him to match his models' modest manners than their crunching punches...
...Kirkwood Jr., husky, handsome pro golfer and "the Ideal American Boy" who plays Joe Palooka in the movies, was hauled off to court in Worcester, Mass. and adjudged the father of a pair of six-year-old ideal American twins belonging to a movie cashier named Florence Hep-penstall. "I scarcely knew the girl," said Joe, who nonetheless made a prompt cash settlement...
...shop in New York and flew the weekly edition to Free China for distribution. Barely a month after V-J day, Gould was back in his old Shanghai shop feeding the dwindled foreign community the old familiar diet of gossipy chitchat, straight news, Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka and Dorothy Dix. Soon he was squabbling with Nationalist censors. When one killed a story at the last minute, Gould filled the hole with an ad: "Printing done and tango taught at Shanghai Evening Post...