Word: ripley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Joseph Vincent Connolly plugged for Hearst, always hard, sometimes brilliantly. He signed up Bob ("Believe It Or Not") Ripley, saw that Popeye starred in Elzie Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre, sent H. R. Knickerbocker to Vladivostok in 1931 because Knickerbocker, long before it broke, smelled an Incident in Manchuria...
...Lady Mowlson scholarship, established in 1643 and the oldest in the college, was awarded to Daniel M. Pearce, Jr. '42 of Ripley, Tennesses...
Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis and Bride Hope Dare were invited to appear as sideshow freaks in Believe-It-Or-Not Ripley's Odditorium in Manhattan and at a New York World's Fair concession...
...Louis Post-Dispatch ($255,000). Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune got $50,000, same sum his cousin Joseph Medill Patterson drew from New York's tabloid Daily News. Others: Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News, $75,000; Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley from King Features Syndicate, $149,777; New York Daily News Managing Editor Harvey Deuel, $130,567; Publisher Frank Gannett from the Gannett Co. Inc., $60,000; General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press, $63,947. President Marion (Davies) Douras of Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions Inc. (cinema distributors...
...start in journalism at the turn of the Century because he could define the word "mollycoddle''† better than anyone else in Cleveland, has ghostwritten for 175 U. S. celebrities, including Josephus Daniels, Samuel Gompers, Cardinal Gibbons, Jack Dempsey. Bob ("Believe It or Not") Ripley says Frank Menke can answer 4,000,000 questions. One bit of information baseball officials wish Historian Menke had not dug up: there is no proof that Cooperstown, N. Y. was the birthplace of baseball, nor that Abner Doubleday, its accredited founder, ever played the game...