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...Milton Caniff is a youngish (34) comic strip artist whose Terry and the Pirates is popular (23,000,000 subscribing readers in some no civilian papers) partly because it is filled with lusciously sculptured ladies who move sensuously against a background of Oriental intrigue. In the early autumn Artist Caniff started drawing in spare time a special, once-a-week, superluscious Terry for Army newspapers. Said Artist Caniff: "I beamed it to the Army, in Army lingo. The boys like it sharp and lusty...
Unlike the civilian Terry, the Army's version has had no continuity; each week's strip has been built around a separate gag and decorated with damsels as breasty and near nude as Caniff dared draw them. One strip had Caniff's famed, shapely "Burma" entertaining Yanks at a dinner at which food was hauled in by slave girls apparently unclad from the waist up. As bulge-eyed soldiers stared entranced, Burma asked: "Why don't you guys eat? Is something too spicy?" In another, soldiers staged a camp show, used cantaloupe to give feminine allure...
...more. But this week's strip may be the last. Unexpected trouble arose in December. The tabloid Miami Beach (Fla.) Tropics, a small daily civilian paper, was printing an Army sheet called "To Keep 'Em Flying" for the Miami Beach Air Force Schools. Somehow one of Milt Caniff's titillating Army strips got into the Tropics. The Miami Herald, which prints the civilian Terry in that area under an exclusive contract with the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, protested. The Herald had no objection to a Terry run in Army papers; it did object to having...
Bond sales have risen recently, John Ellison, head chairman of the committee, announced last night, refusing to comment as to whether or not the increase was due to the incentive of the pictures contributed by Milton O. Caniff. In all the Houses during the next few days, furthermore, attempts will be made to raise this total still further by encouraging students to give bonds for Christmas presents...
Another one of Ellison's ideas while head of the bonds and stamps division of the W.S.C. was to offer pictures by Milton Caniff, the well-known cartoonist, to the Houses buying the most bonds and stamps...