Word: freidin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other newsmen persuaded the guards to let them through in cars and as hitchhikers on Hungarian army trucks. In Budapest they set up shop in the Duna Hotel, a dingy fleabag on the Danube. There they got a shaky warning from the New York Post's Seymour Freidin; a Soviet officer had just rescued him from a nervous Russian private as he was about to put a bullet through Freidin's head...
Other newsmen were not so lucky as Si Freidin. While covering a fight at Communist Party headquarters in Pest, LIFE Correspondent Tim Foote was shot in the left hand. A burst of machine-gun bullets ripped open the leg and abdomen of tall, famed Paris-Match Photographer Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini. From the ground, Pedrazzini held out his camera to a Match correspondent standing next to him and said: "Here, take a picture...
...were covering Russia, many on guided tours. The German and Indian reporters were obviously invited as part of the stepped-up Communist campaign to woo their countries politically. At least three of the U.S. correspondents (New York Herald Tribune's Frank Kelley, New York Post's Seymour Freidin and National Broadcasting Co.'s Jack Begon) got visas as a result of Khrushchev's tipsy invitation in Belgrade early last month after a 3½-hour state dinner with Tito (TIME, June...