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Article: Retired QFFI editor and SF historian Sam Martin, 1920-97, dies in Newark. (New Jersey)(Quick Frozen Foods International; science fiction)(Obituary)
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- Quick Frozen Foods International
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
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Sam Martin, long-time editor of Quick Frozen Foods and Quick Frozen Foods International, died at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, USA, April 15. He was 76, and had been in a coma for a week after suffering anoxia from a respiratory blockage.
Mr. Martin, whose real name was Sam Moskowitz, came to work for the late Edwin W. Williams in 1955. He served first as managing editor, but was named editor in 1959 when Mr. Williams founded QFFI and devoted his own attentions to that publication.
Over the years Mr. Martin became one of the leading US authorities on the frozen food industry. He was a frequent speaker at industry meetings, visited factories and ...