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...Christmas Day, 1893, in Santa Rosa, Calif., was born a man who has been called a liar more often than any living U. S. inhabitant. His name is Robert L. ("Rip") Ripley. His peculiar ability is to say things that sound like lies, and then prove them to be absolutely true. His medium is a cartoon entitled "Believe It or Not," which appears daily in the New York Evening Post and 100 other newspapers. His greatest hornswoggling of the "lie"-hurlers was a drawing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis bearing the caption: "Lindbergh...
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...Previously announced to be given by Professor Ripley...
...Previously announced to be given by Professor Ripley...
...Alternative choices might have been Professors Frank William Taussig or William Zebina Ripley of Harvard, Irving Fisher of Yale, Edwin Walter Kemmerer of Princeton, or Murray Shipley Wildman of Stanford, to name but five...