Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Premier. "I guess I don't have to introduce myself since there has been quite a bit written," said Teng in the understatement of the week. Asked when U.S. publications would be able to open Peking bureaus, Teng referred to his meeting in Peking eight days before with Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan and Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark. "I told them," Teng explained, "that they should move from Hong Kong to Peking, and we would welcome them...
...scholarly man of 69, his face blemished by a large purple birthmark, Fang is not a scientist. He was an editor at China's leading publishing house, the Shanghai-based Commercial Press, before joining the Communist Party in 1936. A military commissar during World War II, he worked his way up through a series of economic posts to become Vice Minister of Finance in 1953, coordinator of China's North Viet Nam aid program in 1956, and director of China's entire foreign aid program during the 1960s. A protege of Premier Chou Enlai, Fang managed...
...became his company's editor in chief at 17. At first he followed the trends of popular movies: if cowboy films were big, he turned out western comics; if crime dramas were packing them in, well, he wrote cops-and-robbers stories. In the early '60s though, Lee got bored and began creating his own characters. The result: superheroes with personality as well as power, saviors who suffered from human frailties...
Marvel's debut on the screen seemed inevitable. After all, Lee's comics themselves used cinematic techniques like closeups, fadeouts and establishing shots. Says Marvel Editor Roy Thomas: "Unlike most comic artists, Marvel's illustrators always drew their pictures first-before the writers put in dialogue. It was a very cinematic approach." Italian Film Director Federico Fellini is a fan. He once paid a visit to Marvel's New York office and pronounced that "Lee added his own kind of ironic parody to comics...
...legendary character. John Janovy Jr., a University of Nebraska parasitologist, was a literary unknown. His manuscript, which deals with such unprepossessing subjects as snails and the parasites that reside in their innards, arrived at the office unsolicited. Usually, such "over-the-transom" offerings are ignored. But something persuaded an editor to take a quick look at this one "just in case." The decision was the literary equivalent of finding a diamond in a stream...