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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT               First Lady of the WorldDear readers, 1  It was during this week in 1948 that Eleanor Roosevelt paused for a moment during a walk from her Washington Square apartment toward New York City's 8th Street. "Suddenly," she wrote in her syndicated column, "I saw on the sidewalk a figure of a man." The man was homeless, "very thin and very poor-looking", a sight not uncommon for city dwellers but rarely a cause for a letter to the nation in which she wondered "how m ...