Marvine Howe
American journalist
Marvine Henrietta Howe (born December 3, 1928) is an American political writer and retired newspaper reporter. She was a correspondent for The New York Times.
Life
Howe was born in Shanghai, China, where her father was teaching chemistry at what was called Hangzhou Christian College.
Japanese incursions and the rise of the Communists forced the family to leave China. Upon returning to America, her father worked as a laboratory chemist in Philadelphia during the Depression.
Howe majored in Journalism at Rutgers University. She then attended Columbia University's School for Far Eastern Studies.
Journalism career
From 1951 to 1955 she was a news broadcaster for Radio Maroc in Rabat.
From 1952 to 1955 she worked for British Broadcasting Corporation.
From 1958 to 1962 she worked for McGraw-Hill World News (1945-1988) in Morocco.
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