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Public tastes changed as the seasons changed. The notorious "Streets of Paris" which drew the biggest crowd at first, later played second fiddle to the Belgian Village, although it made better profits for the entire period. Only "Wings of a Century" and Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" Odditorium were able to maintain a 40? admission charge. Exclusive of admissions, average expenditure per visitor...
...David Mdivani, eldest of Russia's famed "Marrying Mdivanis"; by Mae Murray, onetime cinemactress; in Los Angeles. Grounds: extreme cruelty, unreasonable jealousy, hos tility toward her guests. Awarded. To Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (John Brown's Body) : the Roosevelt Medal "for distinguished service." To the late John Ripley Freeman (died Oct. 6) : the John Fritz Medal (No. 1 U. S. engineering award), for his pre-eminence "in the fields of hydraulics and water supply, fire insurance economics and analysis of earthquake effects." Sued. Harold Fowler McCormick, 61, chairman of the finance committee of International Harvester Co., sometime husband...
...wish to ask omniscient TIME a queson arising from the fact that tennis is international, I, provincial. This summer, Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not feature stated that the tennis ero score "love" originated as an Anglicized pronunciation of the French words l'oeuf, meaning egg. Do non-English speaking tennists call he zero score by the English word "love," or by their native words for: 1) love...
...returned from a leave of absence in which he was secretary to Ambassador Guggenheim in Havana; Harcourt Parrish, oldtime AP and Louisville Courier-Journal man whom Ivy Lee rented out to Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor for the latter's effort to get the Democratic nomination last year; Joseph Ripley, onetime editor of the tradepaper American Press in which he wrote a flattering interview with Mr. Lee in 1926; James Wideman Lee II, 26, elder son, who has been working for his father since graduation from Princeton four years ago (absent last week in Europe); and Ivy Ledbetter...
...almost any Midway visitor should have had his fill of the charming Belgian Village, the educational Gorilla Village, the miniscule Midget Village, complete with midget jail, midget court house, midget barber shop. He will have been sufficiently aghast at the monstrosities in C. C. Pyle's and Robert Ripley's "Odditorium," sufficiently thrilled by the dizzying Sky Ride. He will have banged his bones on the breath-taking Cyclone Safety Coaster and the Flying Turns, a toboggan which makes its twists through semicylindrical tunnels. He surely will have wearied his feet after viewing the Pantheon...