THE DAILY NEWS (Tarrytown, NY) Sunday, May 15, 1983 ·~Leonard Read dead 'at-84 By D. Scott Faubel Staff Writer Leonard E. Read, the free market proponent who ran the Foundation of EcoIJ;lonic Education in Irvington since its founlting in 1946, died Saturday at his Irvington home after a short illness. He was 84. _ Mr. Read, whose institute was based on the philosophy of freedom - in economics ... and all other .' areas of life began his career as a business man following W...