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...program, the Smithsonian's vast Museum of History and Technology last month moved from cramped, cluttered quarters into a $36 million pink Tennessee marble palace that squats with blank-walled solidity on Constitution Avenue. At the same time, the Institution got a plain-talking new boss, S. Dillon Ripley II, 50, who has set out to erase the impression, "held by educators and laymen alike, that anyone associated with a museum is some sort of stuffed specimen...
Ornithology & OSS. Ripley is certainly no triumph of taxidermy. Science-minded since youth, he made his first field trip at 13 when he hiked around Western Tibet with an older sister. Soon after graduating from Yale ('36) he decided "to abandon all thoughts of a prosperous and worthy future and devote myself to birds." Ripley's career as a migrant ornithologist took him to Southeast Asia, Nepal and India. During World War II, as the OSS intelligence chief in Ceylon, he happily combined bird watching with training secret agents...
...number one Crimson player, Frank Ripley; Vic Niederhoffer, number three; and Benjamin all made the semifinals of their tournaments. Ripley beat Army's Al Oehrlein before bowing to the eventual winner, Princeton's Herb Fitzgibbon...
Kileff, in fact, is currently the number two player on the team, behind senior Frank Ripley, last year's number two player. Ripley and Kileff will make up the Crimson's entry in the first of three separate EITL tournaments to be played in Princeton today and tomorrow...
Three Crimson doubles teams will also play in the tournament. Ripley and Niederhoffer will play in the top position, Peckham and Inman number two, and Kileff and Benjamin number three...