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"Palooka", the Bronx Zoo's male Palawan peacock pheasant is showing off his most brilliant blue feathers this season - a sure ringer for the forecasted fall color line-up.
Mongabay.com News 2009
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"Palooka", the Bronx Zoo's male Palawan peacock pheasant is showing off his most brilliant blue feathers this season - a sure ringer for the forecasted fall color line-up.
Mongabay.com News 2009
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Well said, Jack, in general, but blaming this particular greed and stupidity on the Joe Palooka Bush misses the point that the whole show is brought to you by card-carrying members of the Oregon Democratic Party, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the public-sector unions for the last 25 years.
Lents Park on a late spring evening: beautiful (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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I don't think Palooka is much remembered today outside of comics aficionados, but it was once one of the top newspaper strips in the country, and I enjoyed it as a kid when New York had far more newspapers than it does today.
Tony DiPreta 1921-2010 scottedelman 2010
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Mark Evanier reports that Tony DiPreta, best known to me at least as the artist of the Joe Palooka comic strip from 1959-1984, has died at the age of 88.
Tony DiPreta 1921-2010 scottedelman 2010
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Palooka is a 1934 comedy film based on the comic strip by Ham Fisher.
Archive 2009-08-16 Zen Tiger 2009
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Joe Palooka (Stuart Erwin) is a naive young man whose father Pete (Robert Armstrong) was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme (Marjorie Rambeau) to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.
Archive 2009-08-16 Zen Tiger 2009
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Fisher originally changed the appearance of Palooka to fit each reigning real-life champ — until the coming of African-American Joe Louis in the 1930s, at which time the image of the cowlicked blond Palooka remained unchanged.
Archive 2009-08-16 Zen Tiger 2009
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I think this is a example of the “Palooka Factor” at work.
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I think this is a example of the “Palooka Factor” at work.
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