Sidney Lawrence "Sid" Yudain (May 6, 1923 – October 20, 2013) was an American journalist who founded Roll Call in 1955 as a community newspaper focused on the United States Congress and Capitol Hill.
[1] Morris Yudain (born Borris Yovanovitch
[1] He remained in the Los Angeles area after World War II, where he worked as a Hollywood entertainment correspondent for a Connecticut newspaper.
[1] He interviewed high profile actors and Hollywood figures, including Montgomery Clift, Lana Turner and Olivia de Havilland.
[1][3] One of Roll Call's earliest hard news story concerned a heart attack suffered by then Texas Senator Lyndon B. Johnson just one week after the newspaper's debut.
[1] Roll Call also published a weekly pin-up picture within its early issues, which drew criticism, but proved popular with the overwhelmingly male-dominated congressional delegations.
[2] Yudain and his wife, the former Lael Bairstow, hosted frequent large parties at their riverfront home on the Pacific Palisades in North West Washington through several Presidential administrations.
[2] He was survived by his wife of 40 years, Lael, whom he married in 1973; two children, Rachel Kuchinad and Raymond Yudain; and four grandchildren, Owen, Lucas, Charlotte, and Max.