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When twelve of the poker-faced teenagers were brought before Brooklyn Magistrate Benjamin Brenner, he said angrily: "We're not going to treat you like kids . . . If you act like hoodlums, you'll be treated like hoodlums." Judge Brenner, who previously had let one of the punks off light, set bail for ten of them at $10,000 or more, ordered all of them held...
...Died. Benjamin Franklin Stapleton, 80, five times mayor of Denver (1923-47, with a four-year lapse from 1931 to 1935) and Colorado Democratic bigwig; of a heart attack; in Denver...
...Benjamin J. Buttenwieser, Manhattan investment banker, onetime president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and now Assistant U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, made a trip home to make a couple of speeches. One of them was to be given to a convention of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, a group dedicated to "promoting better group relations...
...Francisco) for being the alltime heroes of U.S. plumbers: Movie Director Cecil B. DeMille (for "selling the plumbing idea throughout the world by his favorite device of divesting some gorgeous creature-female-and filming her in a gold-plated or sunken or even fur-lined bathtub"), and Benjamin Franklin (for bringing back a copper, shoe-shaped bathtub from France...
Died. David Marvin Goodrich, 73, longtime (since 1927) board chairman of the B. F. Goodrich Co. (rubber); last of Founder Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich's two sons, both of whom took a hand in the business; in Mount Kisco...