stage for Ripley
as supporter of Ripley, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1, 16.2
syndicates, 12.1, 13.1
and Vitagraph, 12.1, 13.1
and yellow journalism
Hell (Norway), 11.1, 17.1, 17.2
Hellinger, Mark
Hellman, Geoffrey
Herald and Examiner
Hershfield, Harry
Hilliard, Harriet, 16.1, 17.1
Hi-Mount (Palm Beach, Fla.), 21.1, 23.1, 23.2, epi.1
Hiroshima (Japan)
Hitler, Adolf, 16.1, 19.1
Hix, John, 12.1, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
Hogan’s Alley cartoon, 2.1, 5.1
Holmes, Burton, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 19.1
Hong Kong
Hoover, Herbert, 12.1, 13.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1
Huber, Jack
Hudson Motor Car Company
Hughes, Ed
hunger, 9.1, 16.1
Hyde, James W.
Hyland, Robert, 13.1, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, epi.1
Hyman, Dick, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 17.1
Incas, 10.1, 10.2
India, 8.1, 8.2, 14.1
International Oddities
Iran, 15.1, 16.1
Iraq, prf.1, prf.2, 15.1, 15.2
Islam, 8.1, 14.1, 15.1, 17.1
Japan, 8.1, 9.1, 14.1, 20.1, 22.1, 22.2
jazz
Jeffries, Jim, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Jerusalem
Johnson, Jack, 4.1, 4.2
Juliaca (Peru)
Jung, Harry
Jung, Ming, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, epi.1
Kahanamoku, Duke, 7.1, 8.1, 22.1
Keeler, O. B.
Kelly, Brad, 20.1, 20.2, 23.1
Kelly, Jim
Kikuyu people, 14.1, 16.1
King Features, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 17.1
complaints from Ripley
Connolly at, 12.1, 12.2
Doug Ripley at, 17.1, 23.1
party for Believe It or Not
Pearlroth at, 19.1, epi.1
Ripley’s cartoons, 12.1, 12.2, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1, 20.1, 22.1
after Ripley’s death
Ripley’s hiring at
Simpson at
Kolb, Emery, 18.1, 18.2
Kongee, Leo, 15.1, 16.1
Kukan: The Battle Cry of China (film), 20.1, 20.2
Kyne, Peter B., 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 12.1
Laconia (RMS), 8.1, 8.2
language, 11.1, 11.2, 16.1
La Paz (Bolivia)
Laswell, Maynard
Laurello, Martin, 15.1, 19.1
Lawrence, Kay, 19.1, nts.1
Leamy, Hugh
Lee, Linda, 19.1, 20.1
Lefferts, George
Lenin, Vladimir
Leviathan (SS)
Library of Entertainment and Knowledge, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
LIFE magazine, 2.1, 3.1, 19.1, epi.1
Li Ling-Ai, 22.1, 23.1
biography
on Doug Ripley
first meeting with Ripley
gifts from Ripley, 23.1, 23.2
in Hawaii, 22.1, 22.2
on Mon Lei, 21.1, 21.2
on President Cleveland, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
relationship with Ripley
as Ripley heir
after Ripley’s death
and Ripley’s death, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4
and Ripley’s health, 20.1, 24.1, 24.2
on Ripley’s views on China, 22.1, 23.1
on television show
Lim, Poon, 20.1, 23.1
Lindbergh, Charles, 11.1, 13.1, 20.1
London, Jack, 4.1, 4.2
Louisville Courier-Journal
lying, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
Lynd, J. Norman
MacArthur, Douglas
Macfadden, Bernarr, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1, 12.1, 17.1
Makovsky, Konstantin
Mallory, Molla
Mamaroneck (N.Y.)
Mandy, James
Manila (Philippines)
Manning, John J.
Mao Zedong, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2
Marco Polo
Marineland (Fla.)
Mariposa (SS), 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4
Markoff, Gypsy
Masakichi, Hananuma
Massey, Ilona
McClure, H. H.
McCormack, John
McGraw, John, 5.1, 5.2
McIntyre, O. O., 17.1, 17.2
McMillin, George, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
McNamee, Graham
Mencken, H. L., 11.1, 11.2
Meyer, Edward
Miller, Clyde
Missouri (USS)
Missouri Valley College
Mon Lei, 21.1, 22.1, 23.1, epi.1
monogamy
Moore, Thomas
Mori, Toshia, 19.1, 19.2
Morris, Mary
movies. See Films; specific movies
Mukden (China)
Munsey, Frank A., 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 11.1, 16.1
museums, epi.1, epi.2
Muslims. See Islam
Nairobi (Kenya), 14.1, 14.2
National Aeronautic Association
National Air Races
national anthem
National Broadcasting Company
(NBC), 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 20.1, 22.1, 23.1
Nehi Corporation, 18.1, 20.1
Nelson, Ozzie, 16.1, 17.1
New Deal, 16.1, 16.2, 22.1
newspapers, 1.1, 2.1, 11.1
See also specific papers
New York American, 7.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2
New York Athletic Club, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1
New York Daily Mirror
New Yorker magazine, 12.1, 12.2, 18.1, epi.1
New York Evening Post, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1
New York Herald, 9.1, 9.2
New York Journal-American
New York Sun, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1
New York Times
New York World
New York Yankees
Oakie. See Ross, Ruth
oddities, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1, 18.1
Odditorium, prf.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, ata1.1
Office of War Information (U.S.)
Ohnick, Marion, 14.1, 17.1
Older, Fremont
Old Glory
Olympic Games (1920; Antwerp)
O’Meara, Frances, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 14.1, 20.1, 24.1
O’Neal, Emmet
Onuki, Haru. See Ohnick, Marion
outcasts and underdogs, 11.1, 11.2
Overdurff, Harry
Palance, Jack
Pall Mall
Panama, 10.1, 18.1
Paricutin volcano
Parsons, Louella, 20.1, 20.2
Pattison, Jim
Payne, Phil
Pearl Harbor, 22.1, 23.1
Pearlroth, Norbert
biography
death
first meeting with Ripley
lack of credit from Ripley, 11.1, 11.2
love of learning, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1
loyalty to Ripley, 11.1, 16.1, 19.1
at N.Y. Public Library, 11.1, 13.1, 16.1, epi.1, epi.2
offer from Evening Post
personal life, 13.1, 19.1
as Ripley heir
on Ripley’s death
and Ripley’s “lies”
as supplier of information to Ripley, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2
Pegler, Westbrook
personality
Peru, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
pets, 17.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 23.1
Physical Culture magazine
Pinter, Rudolph
Pizarro, Francisco, 10.1, 10.2
Platt, William
President Cleveland (SS), 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1
Princess Matoika (USS)
Prohibition,
8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1, 15.1, 19.1
Pryor, Samuel
publicity, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1
Pulitzer, Joseph
Pushnik, Frieda, 15.1, 16.1, nts.1
Pyle, C. C., 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1, 18.1
radio, 11.1, 17.1
religion, 8.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 24.1
Rhythm, Romance, and Ripley
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 20.1, 24.1
Rigby, Alec
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
Circus
Ripley, Douglas, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 24.1, ata1.1
at Believe It or Not, Inc., 13.1, 17.1, epi.1
on BION Island, 17.1, 23.1, epi.1
on Connolly
discomfort in brother’s world
marriage
nomadic life, 9.1, 13.1
and Odditorium, 18.1, 18.2
power struggle with Doug Storer, epi.1, epi.2
tensions with brother
Ripley, Douglas, Jr.
Ripley, Ethel. See Davis, Ethel Ripley
Ripley, Isaac Davis, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 7.1
Ripley, Lillie Belle, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 7.1, 23.1
Ripley, Rebecca, epi.1, ata1.1
Ripley, Robert, epi.1, ata1.1
Ripley, Robert L.
appearance, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 17.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
art classes
athletics, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1, 19.1, nts.1
auction of possessions
on bachelorhood
birth, 1.1, nts.1
as cartoonist, prf.1, prf.2, prf.3, prf.4, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 17.1, 20.1
charities, 16.1, 18.1, 20.1
childhood, 1.1, 3.1, 5.1
competitors, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2
curiosity, 11.1, 14.1
death and funeral, 24.1, nts.1
despondency and erratic behavior, 9.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, 23.5, 24.1
drinking, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1, 19.1, 23.1
early drawings, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
eccentricities
films, 13.1, 18.1
finances, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 18.1, 22.1
health, 7.1, 12.1, 19.1, 20.1, 21.1, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 24.2
in high school, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2
housekeeping
lectures, 11.1, 13.1
legacy, 23.1, 24.1, epi.1
love life, 10.1, 10.2, 14.1, 17.1, 19.1, 23.1, 24.1
mail
Mamaroneck mansion, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 19.1
name, 1.1, 5.1
New York apartment, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 20.2, 22.1, epi.1
at New York Athletic Club, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1
original Believe It or Not cartoon
Palm Beach mansion, 21.1, 23.1, 23.2, epi.1
parties, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 20.1, 21.1
popularity, 16.1, 17.1, ata1.1
as radio performer, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1, 22.1, 22.2
relationship with Ross, 14.1, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1
and Roberts (Beatrice), 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 17.1
as sports cartoonist, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
stutter, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 12.1, 17.1
television show, 23.1, 23.2, epi.1
unusual records concept, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
will, 21.1, 21.2, epi.1
as world traveler, prf.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1, 18.1
during World War I
as writer
Ripley Entertainment, Inc., epi.1, ata1.1
Ripley’s Believe It or Not Odditorium (N.Y.)
“Ripley’s Ramble ’Round the World,” 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 10.1
Ripley, the Modern Marco Polo (Considine)
Roberts, Beatrice, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 17.1
Rockefeller, Nelson, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4
Rogers, Will, prf.1, 7.1, 15.1, 17.1
Rolfe, B. A., 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1
Roman Catholicism
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 22.1
Ross, Ruth (Oakie), 18.1, 20.1
at BION Island, 17.1, 17.2
in Caribbean, 18.1, 18.2
in China, 14.1, 14.2
death, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 23.1, 24.1
in Fiji
health
on Mariposa, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
marriage, 17.1, 19.1
relationship with Ripley, 14.1, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1
in Singapore
Roth, Herb, 6.1, 24.1
Roth, Mark
Roth, Murray
Rothstein, Edward
Royal, John
Royal Geographic Society of London
Runyon, Damon, 5.1, 6.1
Russia
Ruth, Babe, 6.1, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1
St. Denis, Walter, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 9.1, epi.1
St. John, Robert
St. Patrick
Saklatvala, Phiroz D.
San Francisco (Calif.), 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1
San Francisco Bulletin, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 14.1, nts.1
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco earthquake, 2.1, 9.1
San Francisco Examiner, 3.1, 12.1
Santa Claus (Ind.)
Santa Rosa (Calif.), 1.1, 2.1, 9.1, 14.1, 15.1, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, epi.1
Santa Rosa Press Democrat, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 11.1, 12.1, 24.1
Schulz, Charles F.
Schuster, Max, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 16.1, 16.2, 20.1, 24.1
Scramble
Screen Oddities cartoon
Seabeck, Almuth, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5, 19.6, 20.1, 20.2
See All the Americas with Bob Ripley
See America First with Bob Ripley, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
See Ram Lai
Segar, Elzie
Shanghai (China), 14.1, 22.1, 23.1
sharks
Shasta Daisy
Shean, Al
Sheridan, Ann
Shor, Bernard (Toots)
shrunken heads, 10.1, 15.1, 18.1, 19.1
Siberia
sideshow freaks, 11.1, 15.1, 16.1, 18.1
Simon, Richard
Simon & Schuster, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
Simpson, Joe, prf.1, prf.2, prf.3, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1
Sinclair, Upton
Sing, Jessie Tai
Singapore
Singlee, 15.1, 16.1
slang
Sloan, Alfred P., Jr.
Smith, Harry B., 4.1, 4.2, 23.1
Smith, Kate
Smith-Dayton, Helena
Smythe, Betty
snakes, 18.1, 19.1
socialism
South America, 10.1, 14.1, 20.1
Soviet Union, 15.1, 16.1, 20.1
Spellman, Francis Cardinal
Spirit of St. Louis, 11.1, 11.2
Standard Brands, 16.1, 16.2
“Star-Spangled Banner, The”
State Department (U.S.)
Stenvig, Lorentz
Sternberger, Marcel
Storer, Doug, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 18.1, epi.1
Amazing But True brand
and Arizona memorial, 22.1, 23.1
biography
at BION Island, 19.1, 19.2
early impressions of Ripley, 16.1, 16.2
first meeting with Ripley
at Hi-Mount, 21.1, 23.1, 23.2
increased responsibilities, 18.1, 20.1
loan from Ripley
as manager of radio shows, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3
power struggle with Doug Ripley, epi.1, epi.2
radio gimmick
and Ripley’s death
and Ripley’s erratic behavior, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3
and Ripley’s health, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2
Ripley’s request to broadcast from Cuba
and Ripley’s trip to Asia, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 22.5
Storer, Hazel, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 20.1, 21.1, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, 22.5, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, epi.1
Strange as It Seems cartoon, 12.1, 17.1
Strelitz, Whupsie
surf riding
Suva (Fiji)
syndication, 5.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
tabloids
Taft, Robert
Tagliavini, Ferruccio
Tapscott, Robert
Taylor, Joe
Terraplane Program
Terry, Paul, 6.1, 6.2, 24.1
Thailand
300 Club (N.Y.)
Titanic
Toots Shor’s (N.Y.)
Tower of Babel
Transatlantic cartoon transmission
Trask, J. H., 14.1, 14.2
True Story magazine, 12.1, 17.1
Truth or Consequences, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
Tunney, Gene, 17.1, 18.1, 24.1
University of North Carolina
Villard, Henry
Villard, Oswald
Vitagraph Company, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
War Department (U.S.)
Warner Bros., 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
War of the Worlds, The (Wells)
Welles, Orson
Welsh, Freddie
Westchester County (N.Y.)
White, Jim
Why We Do It (Wolff)
Widdicombe, Roy
Wieda, George, 20.1, 21.1
Williams, Betty Lou, 15.1, 16.1, nts.1
Willicombe, Joe, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
Winchell, Walter, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1, 18.1, 20.1, 20.2
Windsor, Duke of, 18.1, 24.1
Wisse, Liese, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1, epi.1
citizenship
at King Features party
on Mon Lei, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
on President Cleveland, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
and Ripley’s death
at Ripley’s funeral
as Ripley’s secretary
women, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 14.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 19.1, 23.1, nts.1
Wong, Anna May, 19.1, 20.1, 21.1
World’s Fair (Chicago), 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
World’s Fair (N.Y.), 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
World’s Fair (San Francisco). See Golden Gate International Exposition
World War I
World War II, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 21.1, 21.2
wrestling
yellow journalism
Young, John
Yucatán Peninsula
Zambreno, Frank
Ziegfeld Follies
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Neal Thompson (www.nealthompson.com) is a veteran journalist and author of three previous books: Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard, America’s First Spaceman; Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR; and Hurricane Season: A Coach, His Team, and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina. Thompson and his books have been featured on NPR, ESPN, the History Channel, Fox, and TNT, and his stories have appeared in Outside, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and the Washington Post Magazine. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two skateboarding sons.