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Robert Ripley
American cartoonist (1890–1949)
LeRoy Robert Ripley (February 22, 1890 – May 27, 1949)[1] was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, television show, and radio show, which feature odd facts from around the world.
Subjects covered in Ripley's cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little-known facts about unusual and exotic sites. He also included items submitted by readers, who supplied photographs of a wide variety of small-town American trivia ranging from unusually shaped vegetables to oddly marked domestic animals, all documented by photographs and then depicted by his drawings.
Biography
LeRoy Robert Ripley was born on February 22, 1890, in Santa Rosa, California, although his exact birthdate is disputed.[1] He dropped out of high school after his father's death to help his family, and at age 16, he began working as a sports cartoonist for various newspapers. In 1913, he moved to New York City.[2] Robert Le Roy Ripley was born on 22nd February 1890 in Santa Rosa, California. Intellectuals and highbrow writers likened tabloids to addictive drugs, fretting that they’d precipitate the demise of American culture. However that may be, tabloids quickly became the highest-circulation publications in New York. Ever since childhood, Robert Ripley had displayed what an early profile writer called a “bottomless, off-kilter curiosity.” He was a man whose mind was “uncluttered by culture,” as one colleague put it: “Everything was new to him.” A friend recalled once dining with Ripley. While they awaited their meals, Ripley calculated how many steaks a full-grown steer produced and how many steers lived in Texas. By the time dinner arrived, Ripley had figured there were enough steaks in Texas to feed the entire population of Canada’s Gaspé Peninsula three times a day for 18 and a half years. When it came to cartoons featuring some math, science, or history puzzler, Ripley increasingly relied on the help of a silent partner, Norbert Pearlroth, a former banker and accomplished linguist with a near photographic memory. Ripley had hired Pearlroth in 1923 as a part
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Ripley, Robert (LeRoy), 1890 - 1949
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Robert Ripley, as he was known, was a very successful American cartoonist, entrepreneur and amateur anthropologist, known for creating Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series and radio and television shows which feature odd facts and the bizarre and strange from around the world. During the 1930s he hosted a series of Believe It or Not! theatrical short films for Warner Bros. Pictures & Vitaphone.
In 1933 Ripley opened his first museum in Chicago, the ‘Odditorium’. The concept was so success that successive Odditoriums opened in San Diego, Dallas, Cleveland, San Francisco, and New York City. During this time Ripley was voted the most popular man in America by the New York Times and received an honorary degree from Dartmouth College.
In 1948, the year of the 20th anniversary of the Believe it or Not! cartoon series, the radio show was replaced with a television series. Ripley complet •
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