found: Washington post WWW site, July 23, 2014(Curtis Prendergast; native of Stockton, Calif.; died July 17 [2014] at his home in Bethesda, Md., at 98; retired Time-Life News Service correspondent and bureau chief in Tokyo, Paris, Johannesburg and London and a “founding father” of the European edition of Time in 1973; was in the Foreign Service for three years before joining Time in 1950 as a Korean War correspondent in Seoul; later covered conflicts in Algeria, South Africa and Northern Ireland as well as a nine-year stint in Paris coinciding with the presidency of Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s; officially retired from Time in 1973 but continued working as its United Nations correspondent from 1974 to 1980)
