and On the Shore. After selling the publications to Universal Publishing in 1972, Mr. Rowan was immediately recruited back to Time Inc to serve as Time magazine bureau chief of Asia and Australia, while based in Hong Kong. Much of his time was spent covering the Vietnam War and the Nixon-era easing of US diplomatic relations with China. Rowan also made several trips to China again later with President Ford. Rowan also covered the expanding economy of Australia, including several interviews and extensive visits with Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Roy Rowan returned to the US in 1978 as a feature writer for Time magazine and later served as a senior writer and member of the Board of Editors for Fortune magazine. Europe and the United States In 1951 Rowan began reporting on the Cold War in Europe. A story he tracked down in Yugoslavia about a mother’s fight to win back her son kidnapped as a baby by a German SS soldier during World War II was made into a movie called Divided Heart by the British film mogul, J. Arthur Rank. In 1952, after proposing by trans-Atlantic telephone, Rowan married Helen Rounds, a Life picture researcher from Birmingham, Michigan. The couple went on to have four sons. As Life's Chicago bureau chief from 1955, Rowan covered the Little Rock school crisis and in 1957 he was the first writer to reach the "House of Horrors" in Plainfield, Wisconsin, which inspired Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho. In 1959, while still based in Chicago as Lifes assistant managing editor in charge of news, Rowan spent a month with Jimmy Hoffa to profile the Teamster boss for Life and in 1963 he led the magazine's coverage of the assassination of President J.F. Kennedy. Rowan's team managed to obtain the Zapruder film, which showed President Kennedy's death, and published frames from the film on Lifes front page. Leaving Life in 1970 after 23 years working with the publication, Rowan founded his own publication, On the Sound, a magazine, covering the coast between New York City and Boston. The first in an intended series of regional waterfront publications, two years later it was followed by On the Shore, a magazine for the Chesapeake Bay area. In 1972 Universal Publishing Corporation acquired the two magazines and Time rehired Rowan to return as Hong Kong bureau chief. In 1973 during the Vietnam War, Rowan was one of