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...first "magazine of world astronautics" is whooshing off the presses this week. Its title: Missiles and Rockets. As the latest in a fleet of eight air-age trade journals launched by American Aviation's chubby, ruddy Editor-Publisher Wayne Parrish, 49, the magazine will take off with a burst of specialized stories; e.g., a roundup on Russian rocket development, a story of the Army's rush to beat the Navy into space with a satellite...
Fittingly, Publisher Parrish claims a speed record for Missiles and Rockets: only 90 days from the decision to produce it to the appearance of its 152-page first issue, with 85 pages of advertising. As he awaited the first press run (17,000 copies) of the 75? monthly, he crowed: "It's a success already. Our entire investment [$52,000] will be written off by the end of this year...
Star Reporter. Parrish's zest for speed and foreign places has probably made him the world's most traveled publisher and his own star reporter. He has logged 900,000 airline miles in 70 countries...
...Wayne Parrish was the first Western newsman to confirm that the Russians had converted their TU-104, the Tupolev medium jet bomber, into a commercial air transport. From Moscow last winter he was the first to report on how the Russians were trying to raise their airline standards to qualify for international competition. In 1953 he scored a beat with details of West Germany's plans to revive Lufthansa, the German airline. In 1954. after the fiasco of the British Comet jetliners, he created a sensation in Britain by reporting that BOAC had contracted to buy U.S. Douglas...
...urge to travel hit Parrish early. By the time he graduated from high school in his native Decatur, Ill., he had hitchhiked through all the Eastern and Southern states. He thumbed his way to New York to study at the Columbia University School of Journalism, where he won a Pulitzer fellowship that gave him a year of third-class travel from the Arctic Circle to Spanish Morocco...