Rich in Talent : ED RICH GAVE MAGAZINES A WHIRL--AND THEN SOME.(Brief Article)

Publication: Smithsonian

Publication Date: 01-JUN-02

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COPYRIGHT 2002 Smithsonian Institution

On a summer break, a high school teacher and drama coach from Georgia named Ed Rich signed up for a temporary job as a clerk typist at Smithsonian. Temporary? Now, a quarter of a century later, Rich is retiring as the magazine's art director.

As it happened, that first summer Rich's desk was near the layout table, where founding editor Ed Thompson...

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