"Ripley's Search for the Shrunken Heads" is an evocative pot pourri of the journeys and discoveries made by Robert Ripley in the 1920s and 1930s. It...
...imagination by the movie starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman. Pointer argued that Cassidy, whose given name was Robert LeRoy Parker, survived the shootout, returned to the United States and lived peacefully in Spokane, Wash., under the alias William...
...Italian physicist Felice Fontana; U.S. naval surgeon Capt. Clarence J. Brown; and Norbert Pearlroth, fact checker for Robert Leroy Ripley's "Believe It or Not" syndicate. Studded with arcane words, apt and ingenious metaphors, Pritchard's exuberant prose...
...seem stolen from fairy tale...except that they really happened. For example, meet Norbert Pearlroth, the researcher for Robert LeRoy Ripley (as in: Ripley's Believe it or Not) who spent a lifetime in the New York Public Library, leafing through 364,000...
...brilliant book, already hailed as a contemporary children's classic. Ripley's Believe It or Not 2012 By Robert Leroy Ripley (Random House, €19.99 / £20.00 hb) One for the boys undoubtedly, glimpses of the weird, wonderful or plain odd aspects of every...
...Robert Leroy Ripley (£20, Cornerstone) You’ll be amazed at the worldwide oddities Ripley has in the 2012 annual, including long-legged creepy crawlies known as harvestmen and the woman with six-metre-long...
...Mary) Long of Dallas, Texas. Bob was born on a farm southwest of Augusta, the only child of Robert LeRoy and Mary Gwendolyn Goatley Long. He attended grade school at Floral through the fourth grade and then moved to Douglass and lived with his...
...Cemetery, 12100 E. 13th, Wichita. Bob was born on a farm southwest of Augusta, the only child of Robert LeRoy and Mary Gwendolyn Goatley Long. He attended grade school at Floral through the fourth grade and then moved to Douglass and lived with his...
...Mary) Long of Dallas, Texas. Bob was born on a farm southwest of Augusta, the only child of Robert LeRoy and Mary Gwendolyn Goatley Long. He attended grade school at Floral through the fourth grade and then moved to Douglass and lived with his...
...Mary) Long of Dallas, Texas. Bob was born on a farm southwest of Augusta, the only child of Robert LeRoy and Mary Gwendolyn Goatley Long. He attended grade school at Floral through the fourth grade and then moved to Douglass and lived with his...
...MAYNARD - Robert LeRoy Bang, 69, of Maynard, died unexpectedly on Sunday at his home. MAYNARD - Robert LeRoy Bang, 69, of Maynard, died unexpectedly on Sunday at his home. Visitation: 5 to...
...t Coliseum Medical Center in Macon. Mr. Darst was born in Columbus to the late Ora Lincoln Darst and Dorothy Keller Darst. He lived in Stockbridge for a number of years before moving to Monticello six years ago. He retired after 25 years of service as a...
...and charged with driving under the influence. Ohio Street, 800 block, 1:51 p.m. on Feb. 17. Robert Leroy Dill, 36, of the 1100 block of Leslie Road was arrested and charged with strong-armed robbery, assault and vandalism. A victim reported that someone...