Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Almost but not quite so big (6 ft., 175 lb.), Clinton Dermott ("Casey") Vincent, the Air Forces' second boy general, is a fighter pilot and the prototype of "Vince Casey" in Milton Caniff's famed action comic, Terry and the Pirates, but has not appeared in the strip since its scene shifted to Burma. Caniff got acquainted with Vincent through a fan letter written by Vincent's wife to the cartoonist. "I picked his brains," says Caniff...
Later in the week Colonel Cochran pulled off another glider, show, opened up a second strip-"Chowringah...
Herriman was first and foremost an imaginative artist whose charming and sometimes delightfully wacky comedy . . . symbolized a kind of reality one could not escape. Even when Herriman propagandized ... he was unique and wholly captivating: the introduction into his strip of a lonesome dogie who complained of "Old Sir Taxy-Waxy" and all he did to him at the time Hearst so loudly complained of taxation in California...
...although I'll be in another department." His voice was subdued and he stared at the wall opposite. "I love it," he added. "Up there." His eyes indicated the strip of blue sky visible through the window...
...Wakde air strip is within 700 miles - easy land-based bomber range - of the big Jap base of Palau, which probably must be neutralized before any invasion of the Philippines can be undertaken...