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...Hallinans, father and son, make a striking and effective legal pair. Long one of the most successful defenders of radicals and outcasts on the West Coast, Vincent Hallinan says: "I'm a pretty lusty 78." He made Ripley's Believe It Or Not by playing half a game of rugby...
Schubert; Dio Schone Mullerin; David Ripley, bass, William McClelland, piano; Adams...
Norris and Ross McWhirter acknowledge no limits to their distrust. In 22 years compiling 13 editions of the Guinness Book of World Records--which they insist is "not like Ripley's Believe it or Not"--they have learned that no unauthenticated claim can be accepted, that "the strictures which apply to giants apply equally to dwarfs, except that exaggeration gives way to understatement." The strictures even apply to the McWhirter family. It is not that Ross McWhirter disbelieves his grandfather. He simply wants to state the fact correctly...
...August 2, a county chancellor in Ripley, Miss., issued an injunction specifically prohibiting picketing, boycotting, threatening persons from trading and "otherwise interfering with the business." The chancellor said he based his decision on a state law making it illegal to conspire to boycott a business when there is no "responsible grievance" against...
Wait a minute now, before you go running off to telephone this into Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not. You should be warned that the opponent was MIT, in one of those marathon three-and-a-half-hour Greater Boston League tilts. And to perhaps soften the blow a bit more, only one of the 12 hits was good for more than one base, Ed Durso's leadoff double in the first, and quite a few of the singles were of the scratch variety...