Word: ripleyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory over winless Pierson by demolishing the Eli attack, and by scoring eight of the 15 points. End Bob Esch broke through to block a punt on the Pierson 25 yard line, the ball bouncing into the Pierson end zone for a safety. In the third quarter guard Tony Ripley picked up a kick blocked by tackle Al Sweetser and scored from the Pierson 15. The Bellboy backfield scored when Brooks Wilder galloped 55 yards off tackle for a touchdown on the third play of the game...
This year's Bellboy squad is, according to its coach, the "best in a long time." With a huge line sparked by 60-minute men Tony Ripley, towering Dave Brisk and Ray Silver, the Lowell team is expected to give Kirkland a long fight for the title. Lowell is one of the few house teams running out of a T but expects to alternate this with the single-wing if its passing attack develops further...
Concluded MacArthur: "For the Soviets to speak of democratic rights, suppression of legal activities, arbitrariness and chastisement is enough to challenge the late lamented [Robert] Ripley at his imagination's best, and leads one to conclude that now there must really be nothing new under...
Died. Robert LeRoy Ripley, 55, world-famed cartoonist, who parlayed a sports cartoon. Believe It or Not, into a fabulously wealthy career in journalism, book writing, show business, radio, cinema and television; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...Reader Ripley's memory has wandered slightly: the stylish Bank Exchange's presiding genius was Duncan Nichol, and potent Pisco Punch ("Two, and you'd hug a wildcat") was his invention. Pisco John's was a sailors' pub a few blocks away...