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General Vincent. Almost but not quite so big (6 ft., 175 lb.), Clinton Dermott ("Casey") Vincent, the Air Forces' second boy general, is a fighter pilot and the prototype of "Vince Casey" in Milton Caniff's famed action comic, Terry and the Pirates, but has not appeared in the strip since its scene shifted to Burma. Caniff got acquainted with Vincent through a fan letter written by Vincent's wife to the cartoonist. "I picked his brains," says Caniff...
...airborne operation was commanded by Colonel Philip G. Cochran of Erie, Pa., who won five medals as a fighter pilot in North Africa, even wider acclaim as the model for "Flip Corkin," Cartoonist Milton Caniff's hero of Terry and the Pirates. First glider pilot to land was handsome Flight Officer Jackie ("The Kid") Coogan, first husband of blond Pin-Up Girl Betty Grable (her second: Jive Bandsman Harry James). Said Flight Officer Coogan: "I sure feel confident riding with Indian troops as passengers." One of Cochran's transport pilots: Lieut. John ("Buddy") Lewis, lanky, hard-hitting third...
Last week a cat slipped out of the bag in 176 U.S., South American and Canadian newspaper offices: "Captain Midi," the spy currently in the foreground of boyish Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, will soon be revealed as a masquerading woman. The cat-looser: a "profile" of Caniff in The New Yorker...
Faced with loss of suspense to a long-developing climax, Artist Caniff could do nothing about what was, in a sense, an involuntary copyright trespass. Said he: "My mistake. I thought the [New Yorker] story was to run a couple of weeks later than it did, and approved it. Funny thing-a lot of 'Terry' fans had already guessed 'Midi' was going to turn out to be 'Sanjak,' a woman character I haven't used for about four years...
...Honor guest at a newspapermen's jamboree in his home town of Erie, Pa. was Lieut. Colonel Philip G. Cochran. With him was his old Ohio State University chum, Cartoonist Milton Arthur Caniff, who put him into Terry and the Pirates as long-jawed, rip-roaring Flip Corkin. Thirty-three-year-old Fighter Pilot Cochran said that people were always asking him about his girl in the cartoon (Taffy, now No-Name Miss). Of a successful raid he said: "I figured that if I tossed the general staff around some and blew up their headquarters ... it would delay them...