ARMY & NAVY: So Long

ARMY & NAVY

There had never been anyone like her. Tall and lissome, she was an authentic pinup, talked crisp service slang, acted the way G.I.s wished all girls did. And she preferred enlisted men, called all her eager admirers "general" or "admiral."

She was Miss Lace, heroine of artist Milton (Terry and the Pirates') Caniff's lusty, busty cartoon strip Male Call, feature of some 3,000 service newspapers.

The men of World War II wondered how they had ever gotten along without her. She listened to their troubles, cheered them out of their loneliness....

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