His son, Mac, toldThe New York Timesthat Munro died August 11 in Naples, FL.
Munro retired in 1990.
Heconsidered the dealhis major legacy at the company.
J. Richard Munro in 1989Getty
Munro was born on January 26, 1931, in Syracuse, NY, where he grew up.
After high school, he joined the Marines and was wounded three times during the Korean War.
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My feet were badly hurt,Munro recalledin a 1990 interview.
They were injured by a grenade that went off at my feet.
I spent about a year in a Navy hospital.
I was discharged, I think, in 1953, and went back to college.
He graduated in 1957 and went to work for Time Inc. that very summer.
My first real job was atSports Illustratedin 1960, he later said.
I spent a whole decade at Sports Illustrated … worked there from 1960 to sometime around 70.
It was kind of a disaster.
I credit Chuck with having had the dream and the concept, Munro said.
I remember those days rather vividly.
I think a lot of people really never fully appreciated the magnitude of what could happen.
Of course, it started off as a terrestrial microwave online grid, going along telephone lines.
We were the pioneer in terms of satellite transmission.
