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...special praise has been extended vigorous officers like Uncle Joe Stilwell and Major General Gerhardt, who is photographed shirtless, riding a horse through a raging stream. Maps, scarce and in great demand overseas, are now printed in every issue; and a service of advice and features like Milt Caniff's "Male Call" is sent to hundreds of camp newspapers...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: 'Yank' Glorifies Army's Average Enlistees; Published Here and Abroad by Noncoms | 3/12/1943 | See Source »

...special praise has been extended vigorous officers like Uncle Joe Stilwell and Major General Gerhardt, who is photographed shirtless, riding a horse through a raging stream. Maps, scarce and in great demand overseas, are now printed in every issue; and a service of advice and features like Milt Caniff's "Male Call" is sent to hundreds of camp newspapers...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: 'Yank' Glorifies Army's Average Enlistees, Published Here and Abroad by Noncoms | 3/10/1943 | See Source »

...clock last night the students, faculties, and service men of the University had not yet solved the code message contained in Sunday's Terry and the Pirates. Look: Milt Caniff can do it, the General can do it, and I bet you two to one Flash Gordon could do it with one had tied behind his rocket ship. Well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corkin Lingers in Danger As Harvard Sleuths Ponder | 2/2/1943 | See Source »

Solved: the muddle that resulted when Cartoonist Milton Caniff's super-sexy Army newspaper version of Terry and the Pirates (TIME, Jan. 18) collided head on with Caniff's civilian newspaper version, which is sold to civilian publishers by the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate on an exclusive contract basis. The solution: Caniff, beginning last week, draws a lusty, weekly strip for Army newspapers but calls it Male Call, gives his characters names not used in the regular Terry strip. To replace Terry's beautiful, bosomy Burma, there will be a dark, Orientalish, bosomy Caniff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sub for Burma | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...University if not of the Dragon Lady is at stake, the CRIMSON has therefore decreed that it will present to the first person who brings the correct solution of the puzzle to the President's desk one large can of beer--provided only that he beats Milton Caniff to the draw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beer Offered as Bounty to The Solver of "Terry" Code | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

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