Word: boughton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Walter Boughton Pitkin, 74, author, longtime Columbia University professor (philosophy, psychology, journalism), apostle of self-improvement and professional time-saver ("Never open second-class mail"), who added a phrase to the language when he wrote, at 54, his bestselling Life Begins at Forty; of a heart attack; in Los Altos, Calif...
Married. Harry Blackstone (real name: Harry Boughton), 65, famed magician of vaudeville's old rabbit-out-of-the-hat, woman-sawing school; and Elizabeth Ross, 49, a wealthy widow he met in Biloxi, Miss, while both were taking an asthma cure; he for the third time, she for the second; in Chicago...