Seymour Topping, high-powered foreign correspondent and editor, dies at 98

Seymour Topping, a senior New York Times editor and top Pulitzer Prize administrator who bore witness early in his career as a foreign correspondent to the Chinese Communist Revolution, the war in French Indochina and other momentous events that shaped the past century, died Nov. 8 at a hospital in White Plains, N.Y. He was 98.