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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Milton Caniff is a youngish (34) comic strip artist whose Terry and the Pirates is popular (23,000,000 subscribing readers in some no civilian papers) partly because it is filled with lusciously sculptured ladies who move sensuously against a background of Oriental intrigue. In the early autumn Artist Caniff started drawing in spare time a special, once-a-week, superluscious Terry for Army newspapers. Said Artist Caniff: "I beamed it to the Army, in Army lingo. The boys like it sharp and lusty...
Unlike the civilian Terry, the Army's version has had no continuity; each week's strip has been built around a separate gag and decorated with damsels as breasty and near nude as Caniff dared draw them. One strip had Caniff's famed, shapely "Burma" entertaining Yanks at a dinner at which food was hauled in by slave girls apparently unclad from the waist up. As bulge-eyed soldiers stared entranced, Burma asked: "Why don't you guys eat? Is something too spicy?" In another, soldiers staged a camp show, used cantaloupe to give feminine allure...
Soldiers who read the some 600 service papers in which the Army's Terry has appeared lapped it up, and yelled for 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...
...inventor of the parachute bomb, which enables bombing planes to fly lower, bomb more accurately. He invented this bomb in 1928, but it was never used until last September, when he dropped 240 of them on the Japanese at Buna. Twenty-two Jap planes were standing on the strip; 17 of them were destroyed and all the ack-ack in the area was silenced...
...practically used Margaret Mitchell's copyrighted title, he could be sued for $1 for every copy of every paper in which the parody had appeared. This made a suit for $75,000,000 technically possible. Last week Al Capp devoted two panels of his regular Sunday strip to a cold public apology, letting Dogpatcher Mammy Yokum do most of the talking: "Sartin parties got their feelin's hurt! Yo' gotta make it right, Mistah Capp!! It's the code o'th'hills...