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Weeks ago a computing machine strangely reminiscent of Mark III appeared in Milton Caniff's daily newspaper comic strip, Steve Canyon. It developed that an American traitor named Ganglia was trying to turn the machine over to the Russians in far-off China. After some harrowing episodes Canyon and his ex-secretary, Feeta-Feeta, managed to frustrate the effort...
Several TIME readers wondered whether Mark III had inspired Canyon's latest adventure. Having a kind of proprietary interest in this comic strip,* we telephoned Caniff to ask if it were so. He said: "Sure...
According to Artist Caniff, a book publisher suggested some months ago that he ought to do an episode on cybernetics. He bought some books on the subject, but they only confused him. Then the Mark III cover story was published. Says Caniff...
...Caniff, who began reading TIME in his political science courses in college, said that it has figured in his work in many ways. He gets two copies a week-one by subscription, the other on the newsstand. He files TIME stories for future reference, and often has to have both sides of a page. These stories, he added, have been the inspiration for many of his comic strip adventures...
...Milton Caniff's own version of what happened to him after he read the Mark III cover appears below...