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...London-New York slowly took shape in the fusty, rambling apartment in Manhattan's far East 80s that Tambi shares with his pretty, Bombay-born wife, Sana Tyabjee. The first issue hit the bookstalls last month, at a cost of about $6,000, and an unsolicited angel, Dwight Ripley, "an American painter educated at Harrow," made up the bulk of the deficit. Tambi pays his contributors "according to need" at a top rate of $1.25 a line, but most of the poets in the first issue donated their poems. A soft-spoken man who chainsmokes Pall Malls and dresses...
...great Southwest to replace the prairie schooner. By 1890 he and a succession of strong-willed presidents had battled Indians, buffalo and rival railroaders to build or buy 9,000 miles of track. In 1894 the overextended Santa Fe went bankrupt and was picked up by Railroader Edward Ripley, who added 2,000 more miles of track by 1920, quadrupled the gross and put the company in a strong financial position. Thus the Santa Fe rolled smoothly through the Depression, paid dividends on its common stock almost every year...
...Family. In Ripley, Tenn., after running for mayor and getting only 57 out of 1,163 votes cast, Dr. J. Louie Freeman announced that he would contest the election, demand a recount: "I have more than 57 relatives . . . who I know voted...
...museum officials of Kansas City were frankly baffled by the young man with the booming laugh. But they had to admit that he did seem to have a plan. The city had just become heir to a 74-room mansion, and 26-year-old John Ripley Forbes had driven all the way from Boston just to present a scheme for putting it to use. Working without pay ("until you can afford me"), Forbes raised $18,000, stocked the mansion with 160,000 specimens of everything from butterflies to a stuffed buffalo. By the end of four months, Kansas City...
...years since then, John Ripley Forbes has repeated that performance so many times that he has become the Johnny Appleseed of the museum world. He has badgered millionaires, begged and borrowed exhibits, set up children's museums from Portland. Ore. to Jacksonville. Fla. Last week, as visitors streamed into his new museum in San Jose, Calif., Forbes could chalk...