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...Said That? (Mon. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Guests: Milton Caniff, Al Capp, Bella Spewack...
Charley has other worries besides Haines' skill at croquet. He is waiting for Milton Caniff's annual drawing. Each year, the creator of Terry and the Pirates and the present author of Steve Canyon sends the Harvard crew a drawing of one of his scantily clad lovelies for a good luck token. He informed Morgan that this year's drawing was in the works. But it hasn't arrived at Red Top yet and Morgan is looking for it in each mail. Superstitution or not, this Harvard outfit isn't overlooking a bet for Friday. After all, this...
...annual dinner of the National Cartoonists' Society last week, everybody recognized President Milt (Steve Canyon) Caniff and Chief Speaker Al (Li'l Abner) Capp at the head table. But most of the 200 guests did not know the big, sandy-haired fellow in the place of honor. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, on his first visit to Manhattan in ten years, looked more like a small-town businessman than the $300,000-a-year creator of the world's most widely syndicated comic strip (Blondie), and the cartoonists' choice as best cartoonist of the year...
...Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff has brilliantly adapted movie techniques to cartooning. Caniff moves around the scenes he invents as restlessly as a camera under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock, intercutting panoramic long shots with close-ups of action and expression. He stays well ahead of a host of imitators...
...Harold (Prince Valiant) Foster has stuck by the older and less fashionable tradition of N. C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle. The bloody adventures of his Arthurian prince are crammed with careful details, less dramatic than Caniff's, but also richer...