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...pair of old Leicas. used a 35-mm. wide-angle lens at close range for most of his pictures. He leaned over rebels' shoulders to sight his camera along their rifle barrels. Among the casualties in the same action (TIME, Nov. 12): Paris-Match Photographer Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini, whose wounds resulted in his death last week. Yet Sadovy's 18 rolls of 35-mm. film showed no tremor. His most memorable sequence: rebels cutting down security police as they poured out of a Communist headquarters. With his pictures. LIFE ran his own terse, vivid account: "I could...
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...
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