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Wayne Harbour, 51, is a butter & egg man in Bedford, Iowa, who has a peculiar hobby: being skeptical about Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" cartoons. Since 1943, when he doubted a Ripley item about a radish growing out of a carrot, Harbour has sent out 5,600 checking letters near &. far, received 2,200 replies, only a few of which disputed the cartoon...
...Skeptic Harbour went right on checking Ripley items for himself, last month wrote "the mayor of Delhi" to ask about an Indian dancing girl described as the "Human Top." Supposedly she could whirl continuously for 24 hours without breaking any of 24 raw eggs suspended on strings from her head...
More Water. Ferdinand Ripley Schemm, 50, son of a Michigan doctor, had set his heart on being a surgeon. But after three years of practice his hands were so injured by X rays that he had to make a fresh start. Back at the University of Michigan, he studied internal medicine while his wife got her M.A. and wrote her first novel, Fireweed...
...longer satisfied with what it could do on its regular budget-$5,634,617 a year for the next three years. To raise some big money, 20 top-drawer financiers and industrialists announced the formation of the Episcopal Church Foundation under the presidency of Wall Streeter (Harriman Ripley & Co.) Pierpont V. Davis. No mean job of fund-raising was cut out for them; Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill's "modest" estimate of the church's extrabudgetary needs for the next ten years...
...order of their election, the other winners were: Dominique Homan Wyant '50 of Atlanta, Georgia and Lowell House, Armando David Mazzone '50 of Everett and the Varsity Club, Charles Warren Detjen '50 of Clayton, Missouri and Eliot House, and Anthony Ripley '50 of Pleasant Ridge, Michigan and Lowell House...