trustee and eventually chair of the New School for Social Research, and a trustee of, among other organizations, the Field Foundation, the National Opinion Research Center, and the American Psychoanalytic Association. Louis Weiss died suddenly of a heart attack on November 13, 1950. The following week, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated her syndicated column to Weiss, which she entitled "A Radiant Life." In the Chicago Defender longtime NAACP Executive Secretary Walter White called Weiss "one of a select group to whom whatever freedom Negro Americans and other minorites have won during recent years was due." References 20th-century American lawyers 1950 deaths 1894 births Columbia Law School alumni Yale College alumni Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison people Horace Mann School alumni Simpson Thacher & Bartlett