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...more. But this week's strip may be the last. Unexpected trouble arose in December. The tabloid Miami Beach (Fla.) Tropics, a small daily civilian paper, was printing an Army sheet called "To Keep 'Em Flying" for the Miami Beach Air Force Schools. Somehow one of Milt Caniff's titillating Army strips got into the Tropics. The Miami Herald, which prints the civilian Terry in that area under an exclusive contract with the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, protested. The Herald had no objection to a Terry run in Army papers; it did object to having...
...idea of having "Harvard Blues" introduced at Harvard by the singer and leader who first presented it, in the presence of the lyricist, George Frazier, scut Milt Ebbins, Basie's manager, into ecstasies, and before the evening was over he had his publicity man at work spreading the tidings among the trade papers. One of his stunts, of which he has now ample photographic records, was to have the Count presented with on honorary degree of Doctor of Swingology....Sally Scars, the Boston debutante who just loves jazz and everything about it, has been singing at the Cocoanut Grove this...
Looy, dot Dope was the nickname, borrowed from Milt Gross, which Lewis Brereton's Army chums pinned on him years ago. It was a mark of affection and respect. Brereton, from the start of his Army career, was dopey like a tiger...
...apparently Benny has not lost his touch. What he needed was the right conditions. And during the last four years Milt Gabler of the Commodore Music Shop in New York has been providing the right conditions at his recording sessions, which have accordingly produced some of the most beautiful spontaneous music on records today. Last month Benny recorded for Commodore for the first time, in a little band including some of his own musicians, calling itself Mel Powell's Big City Seven. all the soloists were in form, but the real delight was to hear the Good Man, appearing under...
Cigar-puffing, Bronx-born Milt Gross is mainly famous as the cartoonist who created the comic-strip sagas Dave's Delicatessen, That's My Pop! and Count Screwloose of Tooloose. But in his restless career among the fine and lively arts, Cartoonist Gross has also taken several whacks at writing (Nize Baby, Famous Fimmales from Heestory, etc.) and at serious landscape art. Last week Hollywood's Frank Perls Gallery was exhibiting the results of Cartoonist Gross's latest venture into fine art: 30 drawings of homely, tumbledown western farm and mining-town scenes. Artist Gross...