Word: ripley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson's brightest hope in the championships is Frank Ripley, probably the top man on this spring's team. Ripley has been a finalist in the New England College championships two years...
...Ripley will be backed up by four experienced, capable players, Clive Kileff, a fine shotmaker from Southern Rhodesia, should press Ripley for the top spot this season. Captain Sandy Walker, in his third year on the team, has been working hard all winter. Walker faces Nick Sharry, New England's third-ranked player, in the first round tonight...
...tournament this week, Ripley and Kileff will team up in the doubles, and Peckham and Steele will form another combination. Walker will play in the doubles; he will be assigned a partner by the tournament committee when it makes up the draw...
Ornithology & OSS. Ripley is certainly no triumph of taxidermy. Science-minded since youth, he made his first field trip at 13 when he hiked around Western Tibet with an older sister. Soon after graduating from Yale ('36) he decided "to abandon all thoughts of a prosperous and worthy future and devote myself to birds." Ripley's career as a migrant ornithologist took him to Southeast Asia, Nepal and India. During World War II, as the OSS intelligence chief in Ceylon, he happily combined bird watching with training secret agents...
Once, while shaving in preparation for a garden party in Kandy, Ripley looked out the window and spotted a Picus chlorolophus wellsi (small green woodpecker) that he needed for his collection. He grabbed his gun, dashed out of his hut wrapped only in a bath towel, and started shooting. The gun's recoil jarred the bath towel off. As the guests, including Lord Louis Mountbatten, gawked at his lanky (6 ft. 3½ in.), naked figure, Ripley enthusiastically retrieved the fallen Picus. After dressing, he urbanely rejoined the party...