ocr: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC From the Editor THE MAN in the pearl gray topper, Luis Mar- den, often seems to me like a character out of fiction. He speaks five languages, flies ultralight airplanes, and cultivates a rare Chinese bam- boo on the banks of the Potomac River, where he lives in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. He introduced 35-millimeter cameras to NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC when he joined the staff in 1934 and, two years later, Kodachrome film; at the time, such cameras and film were considered amateur playthings. He pioneered underwater color photog- raphy, sailing on Jacques-Yves Coustea ...
