Word: caniff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milton Caniff, the strip's creator, has in year's past been accustomed to send to the crew at Red Top an enlarged, unexpurgated, water-color version of one of his current heroines. Pinned on the wall of the central hall at the New London training quarters are such sultry females as the Dragon Lady, Hu Shee, Burma, Normandie, and April Kane...
Dude Hennick, dashing, black-a-vised flyer, will soon reappear in Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates. When he disappeared, his real-life prototype, black-a-vised Frank L. ("Dude") Higgs, flying for the Chinese, had not been heard from. Dude wrote his sister that he was safe, "between Singapore and Rangoon," after helping fly Allied nationals from Hong Kong to Free China...