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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...
Message on the Train. Ever the provincial, he orders his clothes not in Paris, but from "the best tailor in Lyon"; in his occasional travels he chooses not the first-but the second-class hotel. When cabinets fell, he always got on a train for St. Chamond instead of staying in Paris with the perennial hopefuls who clustered around the President's palace in the hope that, by chance or default, they might be tapped to form a government. He was a second-echelon minister-Economic Affairs-in the Queuille cabinet; in four successive cabinets he was Minister...
Civil Rights. "We must make equality of opportunity a living fact for every American, regardless of race, color or creed . . . There can be no second-class Americans . . . For 20 years, leaders of the Administration have been making promises . . . And yet after those 20 years, racial segregation still exists in our nation's capital...
...touchy issue of civil liberties, Ike said: "Neither at home nor in the eyes of the world can America risk the weakness that inevitably results when any group of our people are ranked-politically or economically-as second-class citizens." At that, the otherwise enthusiastic crowd was silent...
...kill is of Conant the Cold-Fish Chemist. The 59-year-old Conant is no rollicking extrovert, but stuffed-shirt dignity is also not a part of his character. The summer after he was elected president he spent abroad with his wife; they created a sensation by traveling second-class on the "Europa." A CRIMSON of that same era reported that Conant's outstanding characteristic was his shyness; as substantiation it reported the following conversation between Conant and a man he was calling up to appoint his secretary...