Word: ripley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phillip E. Areeda, Dearborn, Michigan and Leverett; Peter A. Bater, New York and Eliot; Martin Boykan, New York and Leverett; Nathaniel P. Carleton, Arlington, Virginia and Eliot; James R. Dumwright, Ripley, Tennessee and Eliot; Leonard J. Friedman, Mount Vernon, N.Y. and Kirkland...
Wayne Harbour, 51, is a butter & egg man in Bedford, Iowa, who has a peculiar hobby: being skeptical about Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" cartoons. Since 1943, when he doubted a Ripley item about a radish growing out of a carrot, Harbour has sent out 5,600 checking letters near &. far, received 2,200 replies, only a few of which disputed the cartoon...
...Skeptic Harbour went right on checking Ripley items for himself, last month wrote "the mayor of Delhi" to ask about an Indian dancing girl described as the "Human Top." Supposedly she could whirl continuously for 24 hours without breaking any of 24 raw eggs suspended on strings from her head...
...Supervised by Col. Robert J. Hyland since Robert Ripley's death...
More Water. Ferdinand Ripley Schemm, 50, son of a Michigan doctor, had set his heart on being a surgeon. But after three years of practice his hands were so injured by X rays that he had to make a fresh start. Back at the University of Michigan, he studied internal medicine while his wife got her M.A. and wrote her first novel, Fireweed...