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...wartime Male Call (for the G.I. press) Caniff poured fast-breaking dialogue, credible adventure - and one touch of Venus. He knocked himself out to make his brain children (he has no others) seem real. His Dragon Lady, Burma and Miss Lace were fashioned after lush, living models. (Steve Canyon's mean and sexy villainess, Copper Calhoon, was drawn from a model, Carol Ohmart, "Miss Utah...
...godlike right over them and their actions, which he had guided for eleven years past. Next week, in 220 newspapers including papers as far away as the Times of Seoul, Korea, Milton Caniff's byline will appear on a new comic strip, to be known as Steve Canyon...
...year ago, clearing his decks for the big change from Terry to Steve Canyon, Caniff swore off smoking and drinking. Though he hates to exercise, he even went for walks on brooding Tor Ridge (the locale of Anderson's 1936 play High Tor), to keep his weight down. Says he: "All I could think of was 'God, I wish I were inside!'" So he reminded himself that the ridge was full of copperhead snakes anyway, and gave...
...Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor; Grieg's Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra; Schubert's Symphony No. 8 [Unfinished] in B Minor; Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue; Arturo Toscanini conducting Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite; a medley of Sigmund Romberg show tunes; Vladimir Horowitz playing piano pieces by Saint-Saëns, Czerny and Tchaikovsky; and an album called Two Sisters from Boston, in which the Metropolitan Opera's Lauritz Melchior sings Hollywoodian "arias...
Getting set on characters, plot and locale, and leaving plenty of elbow room for years of future plotting, was a carefully thought out job. Hero Steve Canyon will look something like an older Terry ("I'll never mention his age") but, says Caniff, there's a difference: "Steve Canyon's been around . . . this guy might have been in love a dozen times." Steve's aviation taxi service covers the globe (slogan: "You furnish the reason, we'll furnish the ride"). Caniff gave his hero a roving job so that he could work...