Monday, Mar. 11, 1974
Marriage Revealed. Umberto Agnelli, 39, tough-minded managing director of Italy's largest private industrial empire, Fiat automakers, and Princess Allegra Caracciolo, 28, occasional international jet-setter; he for the second time, she for the first; near Turin.
Died. Lucius Holsey Pitts, 58, influential black educator and civil rights leader; of a heart attack; in Augusta, Ga. As more and more black students enrolled in predominantly white universities, Pitts, the son of a tenant farmer, defended the role of traditionally black institutions. In his ten years as president of Miles College, which serves Birmingham's black community, Pitts increased the endowment tenfold, doubled the enrollment and won white allies like John U. Monro, who left his post as dean of Harvard College in 1967 to join the Miles faculty full time. Pitts left Miles in 1971 to become president of his alma mater, Paine College.
Died. Margaret Leech Pulitzer, 80, historian who twice won the literary prize established by her father-in-law; of a stroke; in New York City. The wife of Joseph Pulitzer's son Ralph, she wrote three undistinguished novels and was co-author of a play before turning to history in the 1930s. She won her first prize in 1942 with Reveille in Washington, a portrait of the nation's capital during the Civil War; in 1960 she received the second award for In the Days of McKinley.
Died. Lawrence (Larry) Joseph Doyle, 87, good-natured second baseman for the old New York Giants between 1907 and 1920; in Saranac Lake. N.Y. Doyle, a popular player whose fans called him "Laughing Larry," won the National League MVP award in 1912 and clinched the batting crown three years later with a .320 average.
Died. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, 88, longtime head of the Rockefeller banking empire and former ambassador to Britain (1953-57); in Manhattan. The lawyer son of a prominent banking family, Aldrich became a Rockefeller in-law in 1901 when his sister Abby married John D. Rockefeller Jr. Aldrich was later appointed chief counsel of the Rockefeller-controlled Equitable Trust Co. After twelve years he became chairman of the Chase National (now Chase Manhattan) Bank and earned resentment from the financial community for proposing such reforms as the absolute separation of investment and commercial banking. A spruce, reserved descendant of Mayflower passengers, during World War II Aldrich headed the British War Relief Society and, after supporting Dwight Eisenhower's candidacy in 1952, left banking to become Ambassador to the Court of St. James's.
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