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...little time for fantasy's ancient, essential job of fusing the creatures of earth and heaven. The best of the rest, like Chester Gould's resourceful, bloodthirsty Dick Tracy, are like entertaining gangster movies that no one would confuse with truth or comedy, or-like Milton Caniff's extraordinarily proficient and accurate Terry and the Pirates-rattling good straight adventure strips...
...Milt Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, weeks after V-J day, was still in a Jap spy chase on a Pacific island, but agile Artist Caniff already has figured a way to keep 'em flying: Colonel "Flip" Corkin will organize an. air police team to patrol Jap waters...
...Miami Herald for Knight, then sold him the Detroit Free Press, lock, stock and Edgar A. Guest. Five months ago, he helped Knight buy the Chicago Daily News, fourth largest afternoon paper in the U.S. His chores for Marshall Field include winning over Milton (Terry and the Pirates) Caniff from Field's opposition at $2,000 a week...
...Milt Caniff, erstwhile creator of Flip Corkin, Terry, Pat, and the heralded Dragon Lady, may not realize the effect his oriental strip is having on the lives of many Chase luminaries. "Pass me my third Collins while I pass out" Smith (J.E. the folks call him) searched relentlessly up and down the corridor Saturday last but could not find "the lady." He did, however, find a tattered skivvie shirt sworn by him to be the property of "Hotshot Charlie...
...Although Caniff's new contract will be with Field, the new strip will be marketed by Hearst's giant King Features, to give it wider distribution. Thus, in Manhattan Hearst's Daily Mirror instead of Field's PM will carry Caniff...