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...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...
...Fraud!" cried Frederick D. Powell '44, yesterday, and a world which had been lujled into belief that Flip Corkin's message had been cracked legitimately, snapped back to attention. Although he mentioned no names, and claimed to consolation prize can of beer, Powell thinks the whole thing is a fraud, since at least one newspaper appeared with next Sunday's edition solution on the new stands yesterday. The solution was OK, Powell admitted, muttering something about "there are ways, and there are ways...