Word: ripley
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...With Ripley and Reading and Lincoln*- in short
...other newcomer to college wrestling, Lee Sosman, provided the biggest surprise of the afternoon by pinning his man in less than two and a half minutes in the 175-pound class. Sosman's story is good enough for Ripley, as he came out for wrestling for the first time about a week ago. At present a Sophomore, his only previous wrestling experience has been a few weeks at prep school...
...Novak '41, Washington D. C.; James R. Nygren '42, Detroit Lakes, Minn.; John A. Ordway, 2d. '42, Franklin, N. H.; Robert Paine '42, Memphis, Tenn.; Harold C. Passer '43, Faribault, Minn.; Donald J. Patton '42, Cortaro, Ariz.; Dick S. Payne '43, Council Bluffs, Ia.; Daniel M. Pearce '42, Ripley, Tenn.; Jack M. Peterson '42, Portland, Ore.; Alan W. Petit '41, Berkeley, Calif.; Chris G. Petrow '41, Webster City, Ia.; Norman H. Pike '42, Sioux City...
McCoy has conducted his nightly grillings on & off since early last year. Beginning at the World's Fair Midway, he has pitched his way through Ripley's Odditorium on Broadway, is stationed now in the lobby of a Child's Broadway restaurant. No stooges participate in his shows. Everyone is welcomed to his mike except roaring drunks and obvious lunatics. He entices clients from Manhattan crowds by rumbling: "Step up, brother, stop your mad rush to the grave," proceeds to subject them to a barrage of jests, jibes and singularly unabashed questions. At high speed, he whirls...
...family affair, makes frequent mention of his relatives, who provide, he says, his listening audience. He also likes to dwell on the doings of his dog, sometimes known as Only-Game-Fish-Swim-Upstream. Celebrated are his ribaldries. On winter nights he has announced that the cold has compelled Ripley to take the brass monkey inside, occasionally instructs actors who happen in on his show to recite "anything from Shakespeare to Dr. Wharton's Almanac." A favorite of Manhattan sophisticates, he has introduced on his show a lady glass-eater, who quietly munched razor blades during her interview...