Peter Binzen, Dean of Philadelphia Journalism for Half a Century, Dies at 94

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Peter Binzen, a newspaperman who covered Philadelphia for more than five decades and whose books presciently explored the frustrations of working-class Americans, the rise of Mayor Frank L. Rizzo as their bellicose local political hero and the bankruptcy of the Penn Central railroad, died on Nov. 16 in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was 94.

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