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Note the reference to Milton Caniff.
Before leaving, he met Milton Caniff, and the two became lifelong friends.
According to Capp ’ s longtime friend Milton Caniff, Capp was “ charming ” when he chose to be, but he added, “ He could be very difficult if he didn ’ t like you .” Frank Frazetta described Capp as " exasperating, infuriating, domineering, obnoxious, loud, lots of fun, acidic and lovable.
Capp is often associated with two other giants of the medium: Milton Caniff ( Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon ) and Walt Kelly ( Pogo ).
" Lazarus went on to cite Capp as one of the " four essentials " in the field of newspaper cartoonists, along with Walt Kelly, Charles Schulz and Milton Caniff.
Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).
Examples include Little Orphan Annie ( drawn and plotted by Harold Gray from 1924 to 1944 and thereafter by a succession of artists including Leonard Starr and Andrew Pepoy ), and Terry and The Pirates, started by Milton Caniff in 1934 and picked up by George Wunder.
* 1907 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist ( d. 1988 )
Essentially self-taught, Kirby cited among his influences the comic strip artists Milton Caniff, Hal Foster, and Alex Raymond, as well as such editorial cartoonists as C. H. Sykes, " Ding " Darling, and Rollin Kirby.
Goldberg was elected president with Russell Patterson as vice president, C. D. Russell as secretary and Milton Caniff, treasurer.
The 26 founding members came from the group of 32 members who had paid dues by March 13, including strip cartoonists Wally Bishop ( Muggs and Skeeter ), Martin Branner ( Winnie Winkle ), Ernie Bushmiller ( Nancy ), Milton Caniff, Gus Edson ( The Gumps ), Ham Fisher ( Joe Palooka ), Harry Haenigsen ( Penny ), Fred Harman ( Red Ryder ), Bill Holman ( Smokey Stover ), Jay Irving ( Willie Doodle ), Stan MacGovern ( Silly Milly ), Al Posen ( Sweeney and Son ), Clarence Russell ( Pete the Tramp ), Otto Soglow ( The Little King ), Jack Sparling ( Claire Voyant ), Raeburn Van Buren ( Abbie an ' Slats ), Dow Walling ( Skeets ) and Frank Willard ( Moon Mullins ).
At that first meeting there was Al Capp, Walt Kelly, Alex Raymond, Ernie Bushmiller, Milton Caniff, all of them just sitting there, big as life.
L to r: Bill Mauldin, Don Sherwood, Mort Walker, Lyndon B. Johnson, Milton Caniff and George Wunder.
* 1946: Milton Caniff, Terry and the Pirates
* 1971: Milton Caniff, Steve Canyon
* 1981 Milton Caniff
The Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded by unanimous vote of the NCS Board of Directors.
** Milton Caniff
* 1971 Milton Caniff
* 1948-1949 Milton Caniff
* February 28 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist ( d. 1988 )
* April 3 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist ( b. 1907 )
His scratchy pen-and-ink style is influenced by the impressionists, illustrators of the age of " liberated penmanship " such as Phil May, Charles Dana Gibson, John Leech and George du Maurier, and cartoonists Milton Caniff and Frank Frazetta ( particularly his Johnny Comet strip ).
Poteet Canyon, Steve Canyon's ward in the long-running comic strip by Milton Caniff, is named after the town ( and a mosaic of Poteet Canyon stands in front of the town's fire station ).

Milton and offered
Local developers Rick Milton and Keith Libolt stepped forward and offered buy the building, restore it, and lease it back to the school district.
Before Gleason's initial three-year contract with CBS expired, he was offered a much larger one by CBS and General Motors ' Buick division ( the carmaker having dropped their sponsorship of Milton Berle's Buick-Berle Show after two seasons on NBC ).
After recording a huge amount of material at the studio, their manager at the time, Marshall Berle ( the nephew of Milton Berle ), offered the material to Mercury Records.
Because they lacked the money to pay for legal services, they offered attorney Milton Loeb an interest in their business instead.

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Billed as " The Four Nightingales ", Julius, Milton ( Gummo Marx ), Arthur ( from 1911, originally Adolph ; Harpo Marx ), and another boy singer, Lou Levy, traveled the U. S. vaudeville circuits to little fanfare.
Composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, Milton Babbitt and Jean Barraqué used serial techniques of one sort or another in most of their music.
The organizational papers were modified in 1933, allowing the school to accept older students, and again in 1951 to change the name of the school from the “ Hershey Industrial School ” to theMilton Hershey School .” In 1968, the school was racially integrated, although it wasn ’ t until 1970 that the organizational papers allowed that, and another modification 1976 allowed female students, who started arriving in 1977.
It was later renamed Malvern when it was discovered that there was already another Milton, Iowa.
Milton quotes two stanzas from it in Of Reformation, attributing it to Chaucer, and he makes another allusion in An Apology for a Pamphlet that could be to Piers Plowman but is more likely to The Ploughman's Tale.
The concrete cows in Milton Keynes resulted from another ' town artist ' commission and have gone on to become a recognised landmark.
On the other side of Boomerang Street stood another notable Milton landmark, the Arnotts biscuit factory, which was demolished in the 1990s after Arnotts moved their Brisbane operations to Geebung.
" By this time his reputation was so tarnished that he was not able to launch another campaign of forgery, and while the " Milton " folio indeed exists ( New York Public Library ), the annotations are not by Milton.
Every year he exhibited work of one class or another: occasionally a public monument in the round, like those of Pasquale Paoli ( 1798 ) or Captain Montague ( 1802 ) for Westminster Abbey, of Sir William Jones for University College, Oxford ( 1797 – 1801 ), of Nelson or Howe for St Paul's Cathedral ; more often memorials for churches, with symbolic Acts of Mercy or illustrations of Scripture texts, both commonly in low relief ( 1801 ), Miss Cromwell, Chichester ( 1800 ), Mrs Knight, Milton, Cambridge ( 1802 ), and many more ; and these pious labours he would vary from time to time with a classical piece like those of his earliest predilection.
Other bandmembers at one time or another included George Bias ( vocals ), Benny Carter ( clarinet, alto saxophone ), Doc Cheatham ( trumpet ), Bill Coti ( vocals ), Ed Cuffee ( trombone ), Sidney de Paris ( trumpet ), Lois Deppe ( vocals ), Leonard Davis ( trumpet ), Jimmy Dudley ( clarinet, tenor saxophone ), Coleman Hawkins ( clarinet, tenor saxophone ), Robert Inge ( clarinet, ( alto saxophone ), Quentin Jackson ( trombone ), Moxey-Hilton Jefferson ( clarinet, alto saxophone ), James P. Johnson ( piano ), Buddy Lee ( trumpet ), Donald King ( vocals ), Kaiser Marshall ( drums ), Frank Marvin ( vocals ), Theodore McCord ( clarinet, tenor saxophone ), Jim Napier ( vocals ), Milton Senior ( trumpet ), Joe " Fox " Smith ( trumpet, cornet ), Rex Stewart ( cornet ), Billy Taylor ( tuba ), Fats Waller ( piano, celeste ).
There is also another ancient village ( and now a modern development and balancing lake ) in Milton Keynes with the very similar name of Caldecotte.
When the church elected a new General Overseer in 1990 after the retirement of Milton Tomlinson, the stage was set for another division.
In July, 1898, Scarborough and Milton tracked, shot and captured outlaw " Bronco Bill " Walters, killing another member of Walters gang, and scattering the rest from their hideout near Solomonville, Arizona.
The same month, another of Museveni's rivals, Milton Obote, died in South Africa, and was given a state funeral in Kampala.
According to Spinrad the episode was so well received by Roddenberry that he commissioned him to write another for comedian Milton Berle who planned to do a dramatic turn on the show entitled " He Who Walks Among Us ".
Glazunov identifies Kaya, another of Porlock ’ s team, as a potential recruit to his superior Andrew Milton ( David Foxxe ), but Milton kills Kaya, believing her unsuitable.
Hasbro ( parent company to Milton Bradley ) moved Axis & Allies to its Avalon Hill imprint ( specializing in board wargames ) in 1999, and Avalon Hill itself was made into a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast, another Hasbro imprint ( specializing in board games for a more dedicated " gamer " audience ), in 2004.
The book has been translated into approximately 20 languages and is dedicated to “ The socialists of all parties .” The introduction to the 50th anniversary edition is written by Milton Friedman ( another recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics 1976 ).
Other sites in Southwestern Britain associated with Constantine or others of that name include the church of Milton Abbot, Devon ; a chapel in nearby Dunterton, Devon, and another chapel in Illogan, Cornwall.
For administrative, judicial and taxation purposes these units remained important for another 600 years, although by 1295 the number of lathes had reduced to five: Borough and Eastry were merged to form the Lathe of Saint Augustine, the lathe of Lympne was renamed the Lathe of Shepway, the lathes of Sutton, Milton and Wye were merged and redivided to form the Lathe of Scraye and the Lathe of Sutton-at-Hone.
In January 2007, the Railway entered another era as M-real closed Sittingbourne Paper Mill, however, as one door closes, another opens-Church Marshes Country Park now has a managing committee and will see the surrounding area between Milton Regis Halt and Kemsley Down being turned into a fully-fledged country park.

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