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...catch up with the times. A black character was the obvious answer. Says Walker: "I wanted a strong character who is proud of being black, but I knew it had to be a funny character to go along with the rest of the strip." Walker named him Lieut. Flap and gave him an Afro hairstyle, a goatee and a brain power that seems a bare millivolt greater than the low-powered intellects around him. His rank requires white subordinates to call...
...obvious reasons, Lieut. Flap was immediately mustered out by newspapers in Winston-Salem, N.C., Richmond, and Tampa, Fla. Stars and Stripes' reasons were just as obvious, but much more labored. "Flap wasn't even a good caricature, but simply in bad taste," said Managing Editor Howard C. Peterson. "Negro soldiers aren't like that." Added Editor-in-Chief Colonel William V. Koch: "Besides, the Army regulation wouldn't allow a soldier or officer to grow a goatee. And Flap...
Blumenthal Flap...
...intelligence effort is considerably more sophisticated. Yet last week's flap uncovered some amazing faults. One reason that the U.S. was unable to refute or substantiate the Israeli claims was simply its tardiness in getting off the mark. Although the truce went into effect on Aug. 8, the U.S. was unable to get its U-2 reconnaissance planes over Suez until noon on Aug. 9. Then the pilot of the first U-2 botched the job, allowing the brilliant sunlight to get in the camera and render his photos useless. Thus the first worthwhile flight was not made until...
...first race, for example, Valiant was threatening to take the lead when her genoa jib ripped. In the next race, Valiant was troubled by the wash from the 125-boat spectator fleet, a faulty backstay and a spinnaker sheet that snapped with a sharp bang, causing the sail to flap wildly until the crew could wrestle it down. During a race against Heritage later in the week, Intrepid's spinnaker halyard jammed, and she had to limp along like a wounded bird until a crewman was hoisted aloft in a bosun's chair to free the flapping sail...