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Baltimore's best pitcher last year was amazing Wally Bunker, who had a 19-5 record his rookie year. Among the other Oriole stalwarts are veterans Robin Roberts (13-7) and Harvey Haddix (5-5), Milt Pappas (16-7), reliefer Dick Hall (9-1), and Steve Barber, who won 20 games two years ago but had a disastrous season...
...gets so nervous he ties his peanut-butter sandwich in knots. When he wins a bowling trophy-a rare triumph-his name turns out to be spelled wrong. "How can we lose when we're so sincere?" he cries after losing his umpteenth baseball game. "Charlie," says Milt Caniff, creator of the adventure strip Steve Canyon, "is everybody's Walter Mitty...
...this $100 million-a-year business are a dozen powerful syndicates and some 240 smaller ones-many of which handle only a single strip. The syndicates sign up the artist, sell his strip to the newspapers, and then try to convince the papers to keep running it in what Milt Caniff calls a "murderous business...
...another cartoonist can be hired to carry on the work. On top of that, the syndicates exercise a censorship that is breathtaking. When Dale Messick included a Negro girl among a group of teenagers in Brenda Starr, the syndicate rubbed her out for fear of offending Southern readers. When Milt Caniff used the Air Force slang word abort (to cancel) in Steve Canyon, the syndicate figured it came too close to abortion and changed it. In their own defense, the syndicates claim that newspaper editors are extremely touchy about reader reaction and demand immaculate strips. But as one indignant cartoonist...
Ellen Manville (Anne Jackson) appears, and she not only has a case history but a graph to illustrate it. Vividly charted for each "seven-day period" over months and years, it shows how the number of Ellen and Milt's "sexual experiences" has plummeted. Ellen warms to Harry, even though he is a love-testing suitor who stomps on her foot, rips her dress to the waist and throws her mink coat in the river. Four months later, the trio is back at the bridge, sadder still, and at curtain's drop Harry is being chased...