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Sandy Hingston

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10 Things You Might Not Know About Eddie Fisher

Or, how a nice Jewish boy from South Philly grew up to marry Debbie Reynolds, Liz Taylor and Connie Stevens.

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The Best This Week: Zion Harvey’s First Pitch

If you ever get to feeling sorry for yourself, think of him.

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11 Things You Might Not Know About the Saturday Evening Post

How a Maine transplant turned a dying Philly publication into the most popular magazine in the world

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Best Thing: History Got Made Here. Again.

Hingston: After 240 years, of course it was in Philly.

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11 Things You Might Not Know About Owney, the Post Office Dog

How a wayward pup became a celebrity — with a boost from John Wanamaker.

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Best Thing: The Ocean City Seagull Crackdown

Hingston: Hurling those Cheetos could get you three months in jail, kid.

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11 Things You Might Not Know About Legionnaires’ Disease

Forty years ago, U.S. veterans arrived in town for a convention. They wound up with a tragedy of national proportions.

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Best Thing: We Made It Through the SEPTA Slowdown

Hingston: You’re pretty resourceful, Philly, once you get past the grumbling.

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Former Philly Mag Pinup Pup to Cover DNC

Look for Quest on the Broad Street subway while the Dems are in town.

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13 Things You Might Not Know About John Wanamaker

Hingston: Meet the Philadelphian who, for better or worse, ushered America into the consumer age.

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Metal Breakdown

Which do you think will die first — my car or me?

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48 Years Ago, the Sixers Traded Wilt Chamberlain

Here are 11 things you might not know about the pride of Overbrook High.

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19 (Mostly Patriotic) Things That Also Happened on the Fourth of July

Hingston: July 4th has been an unusually significant date.

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Best Thing This Week: Ryan Howard Won a Game

Hingston: It was fun to cheer for him again.

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10 Things You Might Not Know About…

Philly’s June 1919 anarchist bombings. Hingston: Anti-immigrant sentiment was high a century ago, too.