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...shot board of directors, including William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Archibald B. Roosevelt, promoted the project, set about collecting funds (goal: $10 million). Selling the Navy on the idea was easy; Admiral Nimitz is a natural-history fan himself. Last week Dr. Dillon Ripley, Yale zoologist, was on his way to the Memorial's future headquarters at Guam. From there he would island-hop to pick out bases; eventually he would wind up in Tokyo, where he hoped to win General MacArthur's support...
...Vincent Connolly, 50, onetime editorial kingpin of the Hearst empire, hardheaded, hard-working boss of Hearst's King Features and International News Service; of a heart attack; in New Rochelle. N.Y. "Smiling Joe" Connolly made Walter Winchell, Damon Runyon, Arthur "Bugs" Baer and Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley into prize press packages. A big spender of Hearst's money, he covered King George VI's coronation to the hilt: he hired Lloyd George to report the politics, G.B.S. to make the wisecracks, Grand Duchess Marie to do "the women's angle...
Cartoonist Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley believed last week that he was about to become the owner of a volcano. He had been negotiating for the purchase of Paricutin, the volcano which poked through the cornfield of Mexican Farmer Dionisio Pulido, on Feb. 20, 1943, and quickly grew into a 1,500-ft. mountain, belching flame, smoke and lava. This week the cartoonist, after delicate and mysterious negotiations, expected to clinch the deal...
During New Year's Eve festivities in Havana, somebody told Ripley that Paricutin was for sale. He already had a gilt telephone, an apartment crammed .with hundreds of statuettes, swords, costumes, paintings, vases and two secretaries-one American, one Chinese. But he did not own a volcano. He wanted Paricutin because: 1) as a boy he had always wanted a volcano; 2) it might fill a spiritual void; 3) it might (because of minerals) prove a good investment...
Skeptics pointed out several difficulties that Ripley might encounter. Farmer Pulido had disappeared. In any case, his title to the volcano was somewhat hazy. Mexican law frowned on foreign landowners and the Mexicans might want to keep their volcano themselves...