Asbury Park Press (Asbury Park, New Jersey) 30 Jan 1990, Tue, Page 13
JACK IAMS, formerly of LONDON, a journalist, novelist, and editor whose career spanned more than half a century, has died of a stroke. He was 79. Iams died Saturday while en route to New York from London with his wife, Joan Walker Wenning Iams.
Samuel Harvey Iams, Jr. was born in Baltimore in 1910. After graduating from Princeton University, he became a reporter for the Daily Mail of London. He also wrote for Newsweek and The New York Daily News, was television critic for The New York Herald Tribune, and was an editor of Atlas Magazine, which is now known as the World Press Review.
An author of comic and mystery novels, he wrote 13 books, including his 1939 novel, "Table for Four", which The New York Times Book Review said was "as brilliantly witty as the best of the British brand." Iams had moved 18 years ago to Opio in southern France, where he continued writing, but he and his wife sold their house and were returning to the United States when he died.
He is survived by his wife and three children by his first marriage: John, a Moscow correspondent for The Associated Press; David, a society reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer; and Alice Kittredge of Panama. There are four grandchildren.
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JACK IAMS, formerly of LONDON, a journalist, novelist, and editor whose career spanned more than half a century, has died of a stroke. He was 79. Iams died Saturday while en route to New York from London with his wife, Joan Walker Wenning Iams.
Samuel Harvey Iams, Jr. was born in Baltimore in 1910. After graduating from Princeton University, he became a reporter for the Daily Mail of London. He also wrote for Newsweek and The New York Daily News, was television critic for The New York Herald Tribune, and was an editor of Atlas Magazine, which is now known as the World Press Review.
An author of comic and mystery novels, he wrote 13 books, including his 1939 novel, "Table for Four", which The New York Times Book Review said was "as brilliantly witty as the best of the British brand." Iams had moved 18 years ago to Opio in southern France, where he continued writing, but he and his wife sold their house and were returning to the United States when he died.
He is survived by his wife and three children by his first marriage: John, a Moscow correspondent for The Associated Press; David, a society reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer; and Alice Kittredge of Panama. There are four grandchildren.
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Asbury Park Press (Asbury Park, New Jersey) 30 Jan 1990, Tue, Page 13
JACK IAMS, formerly of LONDON, a journalist, novelist, and editor whose career spanned more than half a century, has died of a stroke. He was 79. Iams died Saturday while en route to New York from London with his wife, Joan Walker Wenning Iams.
Samuel Harvey Iams, Jr. was born in Baltimore in 1910. After graduating from Princeton University, he became a reporter for the Daily Mail of London. He also wrote for Newsweek and The New York Daily News, was television critic for The New York Herald Tribune, and was an editor of Atlas Magazine, which is now known as the World Press Review.
An author of comic and mystery novels, he wrote 13 books, including his 1939 novel, "Table for Four", which The New York Times Book Review said was "as brilliantly witty as the best of the British brand." Iams had moved 18 years ago to Opio in southern France, where he continued writing, but he and his wife sold their house and were returning to the United States when he died.
He is survived by his wife and three children by his first marriage: John, a Moscow correspondent for The Associated Press; David, a society reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer; and Alice Kittredge of Panama. There are four grandchildren.
The Associated Press
JACK IAMS, formerly of LONDON, a journalist, novelist, and editor whose career spanned more than half a century, has died of a stroke. He was 79. Iams died Saturday while en route to New York from London with his wife, Joan Walker Wenning Iams.
Samuel Harvey Iams, Jr. was born in Baltimore in 1910. After graduating from Princeton University, he became a reporter for the Daily Mail of London. He also wrote for Newsweek and The New York Daily News, was television critic for The New York Herald Tribune, and was an editor of Atlas Magazine, which is now known as the World Press Review.
An author of comic and mystery novels, he wrote 13 books, including his 1939 novel, "Table for Four", which The New York Times Book Review said was "as brilliantly witty as the best of the British brand." Iams had moved 18 years ago to Opio in southern France, where he continued writing, but he and his wife sold their house and were returning to the United States when he died.
He is survived by his wife and three children by his first marriage: John, a Moscow correspondent for The Associated Press; David, a society reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer; and Alice Kittredge of Panama. There are four grandchildren.
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