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Died. Dr. William Zebina Ripley, 73, Harvard economist and authority on railroads, longtime foe of big business' secrecy with little shareholders (Main Street and Wall Street), longtime champion of railroad consolidation; in East Edgecombe, Me. Professor of political economy at Harvard from 1901 to 1933, he saw most of the financial reforms he urged finally adopted. When he attacked corporate practices in a magazine article in 1926, stock prices promptly took a dive, and Ripley became widely known as "The Professor Who Jarred Wall Street...
Sued for Divorce. By Hillbilly Canary Judy Canova, 24: Corporal James H. Ripley; a month and a day after their Honolulu marriage; in Hollywood. She sought an annulment at the same time, charging that Ripley hadn't set up a home for her as he had promised...
...Miss Oberon. Victor Mature, 26, Gertrude Lawrence's dream-Adonis in Lady in the Dark, married Martha Stephenson Kemp, 22-year-old widow of Band Leader Hal Kemp, who was killed in an auto crash last December. Hillbilly Canary Judy Canova, 24, married Corporal James H. Ripley in Honolulu. Two days later she Clippered back to Hollywood, after the groom had been tossed in the guardhouse for going A.W.O.L...
...recipients of Non-Resident Scholarships in Massachusetts are: Robert A. Goldthwaite, Somerville; Richard A. Kaye, Brookline; Lauriat Lane, Jr., Cambridge; John J. McCullough, Arlington; Thaddeus K. Mroz, Salem; Kalman Novak, Cambridge; Raymond H. Ripley, Jr., Belmont; Arthur J. Torsiglieri, Boston; Amiel P. Van Teslaar, Boston; David M. Young, Jr., Quincy
Third Prize of $100 to Arthur Kinoy '41, of New York, N. Y., for an essay entitled "Arise and Depart, for This is not Your Rest: The Resignation of George Ripley from the Ministry of the Unitarian Church...