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...Cochran. With him was his old Ohio State University chum, Cartoonist Milton Arthur Caniff, who put him into Terry and the Pirates as long-jawed, rip-roaring Flip Corkin. Thirty-three-year-old Fighter Pilot Cochran said that people were always asking him about his girl in the cartoon (Taffy, now No-Name Miss). Of a successful raid he said: "I figured that if I tossed the general staff around some and blew up their headquarters ... it would delay them some...
...nosed, chunky man who is cramming two successful careers into his nearly 35 years. As a cartoonist, he has a profitable contract with King Features Syndicate, Inc.; his drawings appear in some 50 U.S. and Canadian papers, and actually run frequently in the great Manchester Guardian, which prints the cartoon masterworks of Britain's famed political artist, David Low. As a soldier, Dave Breger started out a buck private in 1941, by last week had become a second lieutenant...
Classy Doodler. In 1937 Breger got $30 for a cartoon from the Saturday Evening Post. Almost immediately he retired from sausages to become a professional cartoonist. His free-lance products sold fairly regularly to such magazines as the Post, Collier's, Parade, This Week, Esquire, Click, The New Yorker. Career No. 1 seemed assured, when he was drafted...
...clumsy, meek, confused but undismayed. Cartoonist Breger likes to think of "Private Breger" as typical of all the nation's millions of little men, to whom soldiering is alien, but who cheerfully acquiesced when war came. Through Private Breger, Cartoonist Breger translates Army life into civilian terms. One cartoon showed a squad of soldiers being stopped by a game warden, who demanded to see their hunting licenses. Like all artists, Breger has small idiosyncrasies which trade-mark his drawings. He always draws officers with jutting jaws, privates with rounded chins...
...Most famed Bairnsfather cartoon: Old Bill, peering from a shell-hole crater in No Man's Land, tells his grumbling companion: "Well, if yer knows a better...