Benny & the Benny Brigade

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I just added "benny" and the wonderful post by Ben (not Benny)  Zimmer.
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"Bums Exiting Newark and New York" is a new one.
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Any info on the "Benny Brigade" that's mention in a 2002 Google Books  cite?
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Is the Newark Star Ledger digitized yet? Got any NJ newspaper from the  1990s?

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