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Super super, Benjamin Burke, superintendent at Prudential House on York St. for 50 years, gets a cigar lit for him by Jean May at a party the employees there threw for him. They gave him a headdress, tom-tom and $4,800. He's 69, but not about to retire.
Super super, Benjamin Burke, superintendent at Prudential House on York St. for 50 years, gets a cigar lit for him by Jean May at a party the employees there threw for him. They gave him a headdress, tom-tom and $4,800. He's 69, but not about to retire.

Super super, Benjamin Burke, superintendent at Prudential House on York St. for 50 years, gets a cigar lit for him by Jean May at a party the employees there threw for him. They gave him a headdress, tom-tom and $4,800. He's 69, but not about to retire.

Date5/23/1980
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