Robert E Jenna Junior, founder of People magazine, book editor and film producer who raised his article in Al -Hayat Journal in 1952 by checking the correctness of the idea that flying plates may be present and it was possible to visit the Earth from outer space, on March 4 at his home in Sage Harbor, New York
His death was confirmed by his son, Peter Saint John Gina. It was 99.
Mr. Gina (a spectacular rifle) enjoyed a large -scale profession for eight decades. As the editor -in -chief of Little, Brown, the famous novelist James Salter persuaded to turn a scenario into a novel and discovered Dr. Robin Cook as the author of “Thrillers”. He also produced films and was part of the team that began people as a huge show of cultural definition files such as Graham Green and Vladimir Nabokov, but he resigned when the magazine descended to what he considered celebrities.
For the general public, he may have been known for an article he wrote with HB Darrach Jr. On April 7, 1952, the number of Life magazine. The cover distinguishes a attractive picture of Marilyn Monroe under the title “There is a case for the Planet newspaper.”
For the eternal panic of Mr. Gina, the article made him a target for UFO and Kooks enthusiasts. Entitled “Are we visitors from space?
While strange bodies reports in the late 1940s were trivial, Philip J. Hatcheson and Herbert J. Stretz in the American press in 2019: “By the early fifties of the last century, more fundamental human advantages embraced that there is an idea of the idea by visitors by visitors? One of the most influential examples of the last direction.”
Captain Edward J. Rubelt, who led the internal bodies of the Air Force bodies, in 1956, said that “the article of life undoubtedly threatened the most difficult punch on the American public other than any other mysterious article at all.”
Other reporters have visited the Air Technical Intelligence Center (now the National Center for Air and Space Intelligence), in Dayton, Ohio, wrote, but “for some reason life, the prospects for a feature of feature, and the feeling that this Bob Gina will ask questions that caused the flow of sweat in ATIC.”
He added: “Life did not say that strange bodies were from outer space; he said only perhaps.” “But to support this” perhaps “, he had quotes from some famous people,” including Dr. Ridel. (In 2024, the Bentagon report, which was assigned to Congress, concluded that there is no evidence that any scenes from UFO represent strange visits.)
Jeremy Gerrard, critic, biography and former correspondent of the New York Times, said in an e -mail that Mr. Gina “carved his way.”
Mr. Gerrard pointed out that “he quotes Yates and Ozim” and “appreciates his correspondence with many great writers of his time”, and he was not afraid to go to his own way, “he left people when he did not satisfy him, and devotes himself to teaching when the literary world was changing quickly warp, and worship in the altar of the written word.”
Robert Emit Gina Junior was born on December 3, 1925, in Brooklyn. He was named for the Irish patriotism Robert Amet, as well as his father, an electric engineer who has become president of Rochester Gas and Electric. His mother, Margaret (Mogol), was the daughter of Irish immigrants.
In addition to his son, Peter, editor and writer, he survived his daughter Mary Francis Williams Gina; Sister, Margarita Mishi; Friends; And the grandson of the grandson. His wife, Margaret (Williams), died in 2004. His first marriage, Patricia Ellis, ended in divorce; They had no children. After the death of his wife, Rafik journalist Jil Shehi, who died in 2020.
After graduating from the Akwinas Institute in Rochester, he joined Harvard College, but he left to join the navy when he was 17 years old and served in the Pacific during World War II. He graduated from Rochester University in 1948.
Mr. Jenna depicted a profession in the field of medical research and was already working in a laboratory when he traveled in France, shocked by what he described as a diver’s feast while staring at one of the windows of roses in Cathedral in Schurter. He returned home and changing the direction, and obtained a master’s degree in the history of art at Harvard University and works shortly as a coordinator of drawing and sculpture at the Newark Art Museum.
Later in his twenties, Mr. Gina was an independent writer in the Gannett newspaper group before joining life in 1950 ((Sean Conneri was supposed to play the role of the championship, but he chose to play James Bond instead.)
Mr. Jenna also produced “before winter” (1969), starring David Nevin, Anna Kareena, John Hort, Israeli actor Topol, and “brother of love” (1970), starring Peter Outol and Suzana York.
“As a producer, Jenna may have restrictions,” Mr. Salter wrote about the adventures of Hollywood in his memoirs, “Burning Days” (1997). “He was accurately honest. He was classic – his interests were cultural, and his great knowledge – and he was unambiguous in his statements and beliefs.”
After working in people, where he was a founding editor in 1974, he continued to work as a major editor of Little, Brown from 1977 to 1980, as his son said. There, “Kuma” was published, the first exciting movie by Dr. Cook. Then he briefly returned to Time Inc. That was trying to revive life. Starting in 1987, he taught writing and films at Harvard University. He took over his final publication job in 80 years, and started an academic press at New England College, in Heinker, New Hamebshir
When Mr. Jenna was in the early seventies of the last century, he passed the length of Ireland, with a 38 -pound pulled back, which is a journey of narration in the “Irish Road: Walking through the past of Ireland and the present” (2003). In 2016, in 90, he retired from teaching but continued to write. Leave incomplete notes entitled “Feast Feast”.