Renowned world correspondent Seymour Topping dead at 99

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the most accomplished foreign correspondents of his generation has died. Seymour Topping was 99. His daughter Rebecca says in an emailed statement that Topping passed away “peacefully” at White Plains Hospital. As a correspondent for the AP in 1949, he was eyewitness to the fall of Nanking, and Topping was first to report it to the world. After postings to London as diplomatic correspondent and West Berlin as bureau chief for the AP, Topping in 1959 joine