Word: seale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chained Seal. At 37, Milton Caniff was a widely imitated, $70,000-a-year success. His Terry strip was on the radio; a Douglas Fairbanks Jr. movie was in the works. Why give it all up? For a reason of his own, Caniff wanted more. In Florida, when he was 18, he was bitten by a mosquito and got phlebitis, an inflammation of the veins that made the Army-and insurance doctors-turn him down. Because of his quick-clotting blood, says Caniff, "even a bad bump on the leg could bump...
...made him more aware than most men of the nearness of death. He owned not a hair on Terry's head, and if he died his wife would get not a cent of Terry's future income. Like nearly every trained seal in his line, he was held prisoner by the "shop rights" system. Its major premise: comic strips are owned, not by their creators, but by the syndicates that sell them...
...liked being a reporter, and became a first-rate one-a trained seal who gave the Runyon touch to prize fights and kidnap trials...
Appealing again this year for Harvard support in the annual National Tuberculosis Association's Christmas Seal fund raising drive, Miss Mabel M. Brown, executive secretary of the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association, has announced that by the end of the week approximately 10,000 appeal any lopes will have been mailed to students in the university. Each envelope contains 100 Christmas Seals and a request for a $1.00 contribution...
...fight to stamp out the disease that is the primary cause of death in the 15 to 35 age group, both the Cambridge and National Associations rely almost completely on receipts from the yearly sale of Christmas Seal. Ninety-five states where it is raised, and the remainder is allocated to the National Association to carry on the national and international phases of its work...