Dr. Leo Shapiro, director of the education department of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, died of a heart attack here, aged 37. He was a former New Yorker who served as a lecturer and instructor at Teachers College, Columbia University, and New York University’s School of Education.
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