[Leica] IMG: Gen. Hap Arnold

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

Jim—

That’s a nice example of Caniff’s realistic style (I wouldn’t call it a caricature), which characterized his strips as well. As a kid, I became a devoted follower of Steve Canyon, and was always proud of the fact that Caniff, an Ohio native, modeled "Maumee University”, where Steve's young female ward, Poteet, was a student, after my hometown college and alma mater, Miami University. I was lucky to be able to follow Steve in one paper after another after I left home to join the Air Force (cause/effect?) right up to the point where Caniff died in the middle of a story line over 20 years later. I also avidly read Terry and the Pirates, but that was long after it had become the work of George Wunder.

(By an odd coincidence, for the last 12 years of my civilian career we lived in Maumee, Ohio, site of the 18th Century Fort Miamis. All three names are variants of what we call “Miami" now. The etymology of Miami, FL, is unrelated, coming from the native name for Lake Okeechobee.)

Also coincidentally, my AFROTC training class at Gunter AFB, Alabama, visited AEDC in the summer of ’67, just before I started active duty. I remember being impressed by the von Karmann Gas Dynamics Facility, IIRC.

—howard


> On Aug 7, 2017, at 5:15 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
> 
> General Hap Arnold, along with Dr. Theodore von Karman and a few others, were responsible for the creation of Arnold Engineering Development Center, to get the United States capable of performing state of the art aeronautical and engine research.  A few years ago I received an award plaque that contained a caricature of Gen. Arnold by noted cartoonist Milton Caniff.  I have always thought of it as a beautiful example of his work.  Perhaps a few of you are old enough to recall his "Terry and the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon" comic strips.
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> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Hap+Arnold-1.JPG.html
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> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
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