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...yards--Swope, D; Cummings, H; Ripley...
This year, in addition to the work of Professor J. J. Haffner and J. B. Conant '13, and H. D. Murphy and H. B. Warren, there has been added a group of oils and water colors by A. L. Ripley, who joined the staff this year to instruct in the life class and in water color sketching...
...years ago the road was bankrupt, made so by the panic of 1893. A foreclosure sale wiped out hobbling debts; a new management revitalized it. Someone with good persuasive powers brought the late Edward Payson Ripley (1845-1920), to be its president. Ever since, the Atchison has paid its preferred dividends. Common dividends began in 1901, with $3.50. They changed successively to $4 $4.50, $6, $5, $5.50, $6, then (3 years ago) $7. For more than a year there have been extra $3 dividends on the common stock. That extra-fruit of "Old Man" Ripley's tillage, of present...
Last week, Mr. Ripley's "Believe It or Not" contained an item which caused amazement to many a student of human anatomy. The item: "Marechal de Bas-sompierre poured 13 [pint] bottles of wine into a vase and drank it in one breath-as a toast to the 13 cantons of Switzerland." Mr. Ripley had proof for this statement in French histories, which told how Marechal de Bassompierre, famed convivial, was sent by King Louis of France in 1625 to recruit Swiss guards and gain a pledge of allegiance from the Swiss cantons. Two Manhattan physicians, last week, said...
...Ripley began drawing "Believe It or Not" eight years ago in the old New York Globe. Today, he employs a linguist, two readers, a secretary; receives an average of 1,000 letters a week. He has traveled in 53 countries in search of material. Simon & Schuster will soon publish "Believe It or Not" in book form...