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Show Joe Palooka, Boxing; Champ, Is Now Heard on the Air Joe Palooka, that lovable boob of the prize ring and comic strip created by Ham Fisher, now comes to radio. Palooka, his fights and troubles and mixups, Is being presented each Tuesday Tues-day and Thursday at 6:45 p. m., EST, over the Columbia system. The dumb, gentle but unbeatable boxing champ is portrayed by Ted Bergman, 200-pound Columbia actor who looks like a prize-fighter, in the fifteen-minute hilarious sketches adapted by Georgia Backus. His bold and wise-cracking manager, Knobby Walsh, is played by Frank Readick, 130-pound Thespian. Ted Husing describes Joe's tremendous fight scenes and Harry von Zell announces an-nounces the program. |