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The city’s Mural Arts Program has included the five-story mural on the back of The Beasley Building in the city’s “Mural Mile” tour. The tour highlights 17 of the city’s “most iconic murals” along a two-mile walking route in Center City ...

The Philadelphia Inquirer August 18, 2009 By Edward Colimore Inquirer Staff Writer The 1,500-horsepower Rolls-Royce engine roared to life and the prop wash blew through the cockpit of the World War II fighter plane as Jim Beasley Jr. taxied to the en ...

Philadelphia Daily News August 17, 2009 By JASON NARK When you’re upside down in the cramped cockpit of a well-oiled relic with 1,500 horsepower keeping you between the clouds and death, it’s hard to believe that your pilot’s not a gamblin ...

Philadelphia magazine September 25, 2008 While his old man worked, the Kid usually spent the day screwing up. He skipped school. He chewed tobacco in the back of class. He learned Spanish like a knucklehead, retaining little more than that cáll ...

Philadelphia Daily News September 23, 2004 A LEGAL giant will be laid to rest today. But we’d be doing Jim Beasley a disservice if we were to recall him as a great “Philadelphia lawyer,” a moniker that may still carry a connotation for skill an ...

The Legal Intelligencer September 21, 2004 by Jeff Blumenthal James E. Beasley, 78, regarded by many as the top plaintiffs lawyer of his generation in Philadelphia, died Saturday of complications from lymphoma at the Hospital of the University of Pen ...