Sid Yudain

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. Yudain published the first issue of Roll Call June 16, 1955, with an initial printing of 10,000 copies.Roll Call currently publishes four issues per week, with a circulation of more than 22,000, as of October 2013.

Yudain, the seventh of eight children of Morris Yudain and Berta Jaffe, was born on May 6, 1923, in New Canaan, Connecticut. His parents had immigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire in 1907. Morris Yudain (born Borris Yovanovitch <Ellis Island>) attended the art academy in Riga and studied at the University there. As a young man he served in the Russian army cavalry, and was designated for special duty in the Czar's Imperial Guard. The owner of a retail real estate in Stamford, CT and New Canaan, CT, the father later also established a real estate brokerage firm. As children, Yudain and his siblings would settle disputes by publishing little mini-newspapers using the family's Remington portable typewriter.

Yudain enlisted in the United States Army shortly after graduating from New Canaan High School. He was stationed in Malibu, California, during World War II, where be began publishing a small newspaper for his base. He remained in the Los Angeles area after World War II, where he worked as a Hollywood entertainment correspondent for a Connecticut newspaper. He also worked as a freelance writer, penning articles for fan magazines covering actors and films. He interviewed high profile actors and Hollywood figures, including Montgomery Clift, Lana Turner and Olivia de Havilland.

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