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Winter was tightening its screws on the Hudson Valley when the ship Experimenter hastily cleared from Newburgh, N. Y., before the Hudson should become ice-locked. Aboard, with a crew of two, was her owner, Professor Walter B. Pitkin, author (Life Begins at 40), lecturer, a man of many ideas, some of them large...
Next day in Manhattan, when he learned that the Experimenter would never take him to the Caribbean, Professor Pitkin caught a plane to Florida. From there irrepressible Professor Pitkin wired friends in Manhattan...
Professorial, omni-opinionated Walter Boughton Pitkin, author, at 54, of Life Begins at Forty (1932), was a "guest expert" on Canada Dry's Information Please program, sat clam-mum throughout the entire half-hour quiz. Afterwards, he explained apologetically why he had not opened his mouth: he is hard of hearing, heard not a single question...
That class, says Professor Pitkin, is patient, mute, productive, yet is put upon by the predatory rich, the predatory poor, the lunatic fringe, the criminal fringe, the racketeers (including crooked politicians). He wants the Middle Classers to fight back. He wants to start a newspaper, a magazine, a radio forum. Joiners will pay 2? per day dues. The Middlers' revolutionary committee (headed for the time being by Professor Pitkin) was urged by the professor to "use the nonpolitical organizations you already have, such as Rotary, Kiwanis, teachers' federations, labor organizations and all the rest; have a clearing house...
...Just as long as [the Middlers] do not rebel," cried Professor Pitkin, "they will be trimmed, sucked dry and then thrown away. They will sink into the ranks of the poor, and America will end as ancient Rome ended...