Volume 9

Born in Japan, Saito is considered a manga comic book artist, though he preferred the term gekiga (“dramatic pictures”), a style of Japanese comics aimed at adult, not juvenile, audiences, with a cinematic art style and more mature themes. He moved to Tokyo to pursue his art, and in 1960 founded Saito Production to produce it, which branched out … Read more

Born in Los Angeles, Sandrich was born into “Hollywood”: his father, Mark, was a long-time, well-regarded film director, and served a stint as president of the Director’s Guild. Sandrich “grew up surrounded by celebrities and didn’t give a second thought to having Jimmy Stewart and Jack Benny as neighbors or seeing Astaire or Irving Berlin … Read more

Born in Ohio, Klamer studied ancient and modern history at George Washington University, marketing at Ohio State University, and postgraduate work in engineering at the University of Michigan. After time out for service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, where he served in the South Pacific, he worked for an air cargo company, … Read more

Born Warren Schexnider in Abbeville, Louisiana, Storm’s father was a Cajun musician, who taught the boy to play drums and guitar. “Played Cajun music,” he said. “Country music. Back then they called it hillbilly music.” By age 12, Storm was playing gigs, and a trip to New Orleans with fellow musician Bobby Charles Guidry brought … Read more

A biochemist, Fischer remembered one day when he called his secretary at 5:00 a.m. to tell her that “Something happened that’s going to cause you lots of work.” Carmen Westwater sighed, “Don’t tell me, I know. You lost all your plane tickets. Again.” No, that wasn’t it: he and his University of Washington Colleague, Dr. … Read more

Born and raised in Decatur, Ill., Loewen attended Minnesota’s Carleton College, during which time he spent a semester in an exchange program at a college in Mississippi. There, he was struck by the difference in culture — and became suspicious about what he had learned in history classes. He went on to earn a Ph.D … Read more

Born in Texas, Galloway initially enrolled in community college after high school, but dropped out to join the Army. His mother convinced him to study journalism, and he did, but he mixed the two careers: he became a war correspondent with United Press International, and assigned to a “new” American war: Vietnam. His first battle … Read more

Born and raised in Ohio (as Fred Laderman), Ladd graduated from Ohio State University after studying speech and radio broadcasting. He was long interested in both: as a child, he did impersonations of movie and radio stars. After a year at a FM radio station in New York City, he took a job at an … Read more

A pilot, Eby received the Air Medal in 1946 for his services in the U.S. Navy in World War II. Like many military pilots, after discharge he became an airline pilot — in this case, for American Airlines in 1950. When the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 widebody tri-jet came out in 1970, Eby flew that plane … Read more