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...Color. In Redwood City, Calif., Donald Brown sued Binney & Smith Co., crayon manufacturers, for $35,243, complained that after his young son ate some of the crayons his body turned blue and his blood chocolate brown...
Born. To Nilla Shiles Putnam, 30; and Air Forces Lieut. David Binney Putnam, 29, onetime boy explorer-author (David Goes Voyaging, David Goes to Greenland, etc.), stepson of the late Aviatrix Amelia Earhart: their third child, first son, David Binney Jr.; in Fort Pierce, Fla. Weight...
...bodyguard. Her agent announced: "It is not an elopement." ∙ ∙ Gilt-haired Evangelist A'imee Semple McPherson, thrice-married, twice-divorced, approved a new bylaw adopted by her International Church of the Four Square Gospel. It prohibits a divorced minister from remarrying. ∙ ∙ Oldtime Cinemactress Constance Binney, 40, revealed she had been secretly married for nearly a month to a 22-year-old flight lieutenant in the R.A.F., Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire. ∙ ∙ Philadelphia society's former Princess Ruth Pignatelli, fighting for a divorce from her second husband, Broker James C. Brazelle, denied she bought...
When it was first suggested in 1833 that Philadelphia's streets be lighted by gas instead of oil, a group of such prominent citizens as Benjamin Chew, Horace Binney and Jacob Ridgeway wrote in consternation to the city council. They protested against the use of "an uncertain light, sometimes disappearing and leaving the streets and houses in total darkness." Despite these dire predictions, the city council spent $100,000 on a municipal gasworks which began supplying 46 street lights and two homes in 1836. Last week hundreds of Philadelphia housewives telephoned the city hall to find out whether...