D&D 1E The fate of an old school adventure designer

[Mannahnin]

He was more than just involved. He was the first head of the Design department, and hired guys like Moldvay and Zeb Cook.

Which underscores what a rapidly growing company they were at the time. He was just out of college as I recall; White Plume Mountain had been his "show them my most creative ideas crammed into one rough dungeon" submission as part of his employment application, and he was surprised that they published it nearly as-is.