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Last week over a CBS network Robert Ripley reunited after 40 years a mother and her long-lost son. Having accomplished this minor miracle, Ripley changed the pace of his Believe It Or Not show, abandoned hearts & flowers to hold radio's first network fur auction. Purpose of the auction was to raise funds for four Norwegians who fled from their Nazi-controlled homeland last July in a 38-ft. pilot sloop, pulled into New York City 54 days later with no assets save their boat and a platina...
...mutation of silver fox, platina fox furs come as low as $300, as high as $12,000. Since the quota on platina foxes has already been filled, due to unloading by Norwegian furriers before the war, the fur Ripley's four Norwegians brought with them is being held in a warehouse until December. To suggest the fur that wasn't there a fancy platina fox worth $11,000 was on display in the studio. On hand for the show were representatives of many a famed Manhattan store, along with bidders from stores in Philadelphia, Dallas, Cleveland, Chicago...
With Navy support, the chief owners of Cramp's-Harriman interests, holders of over 90% of the mortgages-got under way. Tall, blue-eyed, soft-spoken Banker Joseph Pierce Ripley of Harriman, Ripley & Co. settled with skeptical councilmen for $100,000. The Navy settled a $1,000,000 financing lien for another $100,000. Ripley announced a plan whereby the mortgages ($5,338,000, including interest) will be exchanged for about 100,000 shares of common stock in a new Cramp's Shipbuilding Co. Another 100,000 shares will be publicly sold to raise...
ROBERT L. RIPLEY New York City...
...Odditorium is Ripley's, believe...