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Whenever my phone at home rings at odd hours, the person on the other end is almost always Howard Chua-Eoan, one of our assistant managing editors and the person responsible for overseeing TIME's correspondents in the U.S. and around the world. He is the bearer of late-breaking news, telling me about the latest crisis and whom he dispatched to cover it. I always give a groggy O.K. since Howard's judgment on how to handle a story is impeccable...
...Howard began his career here as the Saturday secretary, while still a student at Columbia University's journalism school. Born and raised in Manila, Howard got hooked on news watching Ruther Batuigas, a police reporter for the city's Daily Star, a tabloid published by his uncle, Andrew Go. "He was forever solving some crime: interviewing the murderous leader of a jailhouse riot, bringing some fugitive in to face justice, surviving a shootout with a gunslinging gangster. One of the most exciting things I was ever allowed to do was hitch a ride with Ruther...
...When Howard graduated from Columbia, we hired him full-time as a reporter, and his gift for the stylish phrase won him the chance to write foreign news. Howard happened to be the Saturday night duty writer when the Chinese army stormed Tiananmen Square in 1989, and by daybreak Sunday he wrote our cover on the massacre. Since then, he has written or edited more than 50 covers, giving rise to the rumor that he never leaves the building. Trust me: he does, though his elaborately decorated office (which includes not one but two plastic blowups of the figure from...
...action is. At those moments, as deadline approaches and stories come due, when the talents and resources of TIME come rushing together to a weekly close, I feel my life has borrowed something like the energy and fun and enormity of a movie." See why I like getting Howard's calls, no matter what the hour...
...drains out like blood into a gutter. Better still, it also gives comix fans what they want: an engaging story that stretches out to sophisticated commentary in a pop-culture guise. In 1952 such comics all but died after the institution of the Comics Code Authority. But now, assuming Howard Chaykin and company don't blow it, all at once mainstream pulp comics have caught up with their healthfully evolved book and movie relations...