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...Captain Midi Is Not Himself...
Last week a cat slipped out of the bag in 176 U.S., South American and Canadian newspaper offices: "Captain Midi," the spy currently in the foreground of boyish Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, will soon be revealed as a masquerading woman. The cat-looser: a "profile" of Caniff in The New Yorker...
...nothing about what was, in a sense, an involuntary copyright trespass. Said he: "My mistake. I thought the [New Yorker] story was to run a couple of weeks later than it did, and approved it. Funny thing-a lot of 'Terry' fans had already guessed 'Midi' was going to turn out to be 'Sanjak,' a woman character I haven't used for about four years...
...most influential of De Gaulle's champions in the U.S., where he had lived since 1932. He was educated in Paris and in England, came to the U.S. to cover the New Deal for the Revue de Paris, worked as correspondent for Paris-Soir, Paris-Midi, L'Europe Nouvelle and Havas News Agency before the fall of France...
Author Bessy Myers and her cool friend, Mary Darby, were captured in June 1940. They spent the next "incredible hundred days" under the Nazi thumb-in a hospital and in two prisons, in Occupied France. They got loose and back to London. For three weeks, in the notorious Cherche-Midi prison in Paris, they experienced solitary confinement, bedbugs, thoughts about suicide. Their jailmates were in for such crimes as tearing down a Nazi poster; firing a cook (who promptly denounced her mistress to the Nazis); saying sales Bodies (two years); helping Polish suspects escape from Paris (20 years). One night...