Funeral services were held today for Samuel Caplan, retired editor of Congress bi-Weekly, a magazine published by the American Jewish Congress, who died Tuesday at the age of 74. Mr. Caplan was born in Russia and came to the United States in 1905. He attended the University of Pittsburgh and the Columbia University School of Journalism. In 1934 he edited The New Palestine magazine and in 1940 was appointed editor of the Congress Weekly, the post which he held until his retirement in 1966. The magazine became a bi-weekly in 1959.
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