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...everyone in Korea dreams longingly of the day a troopship will carry him home. At least one G.I., 30-year-old Sergeant Ralph Ripley of Portland, Ore., refuses to be rotated. Ripley explained that, as a regimental postmaster, he can spend all of his free time working on his $35,000 stamp collection without interference. "You're safe from women overseas. I had a lot of buddies who went back and they got hooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Safety First | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

Robert S. Carney, '20-'21, Ripley, Tenn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listing of Harvard Clubs | 6/21/1951 | See Source »

...Other notable old students: John W. McCormack (now majority leader of the House of Representatives), Elsie Janis, Robert Ripley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Power Through Speech | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Phillip E. Areeda, Dearborn, Michigan and Leverett; Peter A. Bater, New York and Eliot; Martin Boykan, New York and Leverett; Nathaniel P. Carleton, Arlington, Virginia and Eliot; James R. Dumwright, Ripley, Tennessee and Eliot; Leonard J. Friedman, Mount Vernon, N.Y. and Kirkland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Chooses Senior Sixteen | 11/22/1950 | See Source »

...Supervised by Col. Robert J. Hyland since Robert Ripley's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Mysterious West | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

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